The fear was because; in a communist system there is no private ownership of business or property. ... In 1917, the monarchy was overthrown and the world's first communist government was formed. ... At the occurrence of World War II, communists were instructed to oppose the war effort. ... By 1945, the Communist Party changed its name to the Communist party of Australia (CPA) and the Australian members of it had risen to over 40 000. ... After the war Vietnam became a communist country and was ruled by the Vietnam Communist Party. ...

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The leadership in Cambodia and Laos are both communist but have different leaders. ... When he returned to Cambodia he wanted to set-up a communist peasant farming state. ... The United States and England were anti-communist. ... The United States was against Cambodia and Laos being Communist. ... Cambodia is always looking to the United States for help against the Vietnamese Communist. ...

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During the depression, thousands of American citizens joined the communist party for economic answers. By the end of World War II, most had withdrawn, though some were still communist party members. ... This committee was supposed to prevent and stop communist acts and acts against Americans. ... People started to fear and hate everyone that was charged with having communistic ties. ... This one event shows how the nation was split on deciding the fate of convicted communists (D4). ...

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The Word communist not only became a bad word but also a serious accusation. The practice of communism became evil and all those who were believed to be communist were thought of as evil too. ... They feared infiltration by communist in places of power like political offices. ... In 1950 McCarthy made a speech accusing 205 government workers for being apart of the American communist party. ... He realizes that the future of this country could be hindered by the infiltration of communist. ...

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Truman, were not harsh enough on the communist party and they strongly opposed Roosevelt's New Deal. ... The anti-Communist hysteria that was taking control of the U.S. came as a result of many different factors following the end of World War Two. ... Finally, the Communist takeover in China, the USSR's detonation of an atomic bomb in 1949, and the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 all led the U.S. to not only distrust, but to fear any communist-related groups either in the USSR or the U.S. ... Actors, directors, producers, and writers were all under close watch by the government...

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In 1945, the communist Soviet Union invaded North Korea, quickly forcing the Japanese to surrender. ... Tensions quickly grew between the North and South, as powerful leaders arose in both territories; Kim Il Sung imposing a communist regime in the North and national exile Syngman Rhee establishing the Republic of Korea in the South. Although the U.S. had begun to withdraw troops from Korea as early as 1948, they were forced to remain, as communist North Korea threatened to invade South Korea. ... McCarthy was just beginning his tirade of communist accusations against members of the Truman adm...

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The red army was the communists of the country. ... War breaks out and because of the communist forces, and the communists make the decision to engage in the "Long March.... After the battle they return to their civil war and in 1949 the communists secure victory and China becomes a communist country. ... In China the communists were forced to walk a 6,000 mile journey to succeed while in Russia, communists merely had to win the battle. Both countries battled nationalists and communists and the communists were successful on both sides. ...

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Communists, perhaps above all other groups, were looked on with the most suspicion and were eventually the main target of the U.S. attack on these groups. ... The creation of the Soviet Union and its communist government led to a fear in the U.S. that communism could spread in America and the U.S. government would be overthrown just as the Russian government and its Tsar (the Russian King) had been replaced (Tsar Nicholas II was eventually murdered by the Communists along with his entire family). ... They were seen, or at least their leaders were, as agents of the communists and the other radi...

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When Fidel Castro, the dictator of Cuba from 1959-present, declared the government Communist in 1961; President of the U.S. ... Once again the communist "virus- created by the Soviets was spreading throughout Latin America. ... Communists influences began when a Marxist, named Agustan Farabundo Martí, returned to El Salvador (after leaving the country to Guatemala for two years) as a representative of International Red Aid (Socorro Rojo) so that he can support the communist workers' movement. ... The Communist Party formed into a guerrilla force in 1979. ... The U.S. has been inter...

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Hungarian communists were gradually gaining control of Hungary's government. Matthias Rakosi was head of the communist party, and head of the government. ... Some communists in free nations protested by resigning from the party. ... In 1988, fortunately for the Hungarians the Communist Party's power started to erode. ... A non-communist party won a majority of the parliamentary seats. ...

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In most communist countries, the economy is alway bad; and does nott recover or collapses entirely. Communist countries like Laos, North Korea and Cuba all have very poor and weak economies5. ... This would cause a reasonable assumption that the South and North Korean communist economies would suffer the same fate. ... The communist forces were committing war crimes throughout their campaign. ... The communist soldiers then wired their hands behind their backs and forced them to cower in hastily dug shallow ditches, face down. ...

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Truman felt the best way to solve the communist threat in these countries was to strengthen their respective incumbent governments. ... It was not uncommon for nations like these to develop a communist push. ... NATO was an alliance of eleven non-communist nations who pledged full support for each other. ... In addition, the threat of United States military action against communist aggression contained the communist threat to its roots in Russian and Eastern Europe. His actions effectively kept in check the communist powers of his time. ...

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The French, British, and American zones were all capitalistic regions, whereas the Soviet zone was communistic. ... Later, communist China helps North Korea push South Korea back to almost its original border, however, two million deaths occurred, 50,000 of which were American. ... In 1959, Cuba had become communist under Fidel Castro. ... Luckily, the US was able to avoid conflict by containing the communist countries from spreading and influencing other countries. If the Soviets tried to force communist views on the US, there would have been a high chance of conflict, war, or in the worst c...

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Evidence shows that the Rosenberg's had a long history of activities in the communist party. Julius Rosenberg, at the young age of 16, was a doctrinaire member of New York City College's Communist League. The Rosenberg's had close associations with people inside the American communist infrastructure, that the Rosenberg's had face to face communication with communist agents. But the Rosenberg's, contrary to their oath, were deeply committed to the communist ideology. ... Russia would perfect the bomb caused the Communist aggression in Korea, resulting in over 50,000 ...

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United States even offered money to communist countries in Europe, including the Soviet Union. ... Also it made sure that Berlin would not be taken over by the communist. In North Korea, a communist government was established by the Soviet Union. ... Between (1951-1953), in the Korean war communist country North Korea surprised the US by invading the democratic South Korea. ... This decision by the US to become involved in the Korean conflict helped South Korea to remain free and not become communist like the Soviet Union wanted it. ...

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There was a time when everyone was going hysterical over nothing, thousands of artists were getting laid off for no good reason, and a national communist scare had the nation at a standstill. ... There were several communist scares in the United States such as the Red Scare in the 1920s and the Palmer Raids that followed, but in February 1950 Senator John McCarthy acquired quite a following when he began pointing fingers at alleged communist sympathizers. The hysteria and paranoia that had existed post World War I returned in full swing once more, but this time the threat was even greater and ...

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The Soviets reluctance to reunify Korea and the strong Communist atmosphere in North Korea also disgruntled Americans and hurt diplomatic relations. Overall, each step that the Soviet Union took to strengthen its power and the power of the Communist party was viewed as an act of aggression, and there are many historians who strongly believe that the Soviets were at fault in the instigation of the Cold War due to these immense acts of aggression. ... As the Soviet Union grew more and more powerful, every American grew more frightened of the Communist movement. No event greater exemplified this ...

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"The devotion to Marxism, the attack against capitalism, and the often repeated desire to provoke Communist revolutions in other countries had made that nation the object of American suspicion long before the coming of World War II or even Vietnam." The experience of the Korean War, which left the safety of South Korea dependent upon the presence of American soldiers, sealed the U.S. government's attitude that all communist movements were hostile to the interests of the United States and its allies and the anti-communist effort in Vietnam was part of the struggle of the "Free World" agai...

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Communist forces in The Vietnam War were: North Vietnam, Viet Cong, Khmer Rouge, Pathet Lao, Soviet Union, China and North Korea. Anti-Communist forces were: South Vietnam, United States, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Khmer Republic and the Kingdom of Laos. ... This meant it was extremely hard to fight the communist forces. ... In 1975 the war ended at the Fall of Saigon with the North Vietnamese and communists winning the war. This resulted in Vietnam reuniting as a communist country. ...

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Most European countries accepted the aid, with the exception of communistic powers such as the Soviet Union, and certain Communist parties in Italy, France and Czechoslovakia all who declined American influence in any of their economy and due to this the Marshall plan created a containment effect in which now communist countries received no benefit, and their economies haltered as a result. On the other side, the assistance went to countries first like Greece and Turkey who were receiving fierce opposition from communist influences and generally had to be protected by countries like Britain i...

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At first glance this may not be apparent to the average reader, but with a closer look each animal has a characteristic of a Communist leader. ... He changed each Communist leader into an animal, and the Soviet Union as a country into a country-side farm. Much controversy came from Orwell's interpretation of the Communist leaders as pigs, since pigs are regarded as filthy and unclean animals. ... Or in Orwell's eyes, Stalin acting as a Communist. ... It is easy to make the connection between Communist Soviet Union and the farm and how it is run by Napoleon once it is understood. ...

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Also the time Americans were afraid of communist, because they thought every communist would be out to destroy America, Americans were afraid that the communist would take their rights away, also all Americans should be treated fairly and should not have their lives dictated. ... This also occurred during The Red Scare and during this time people were afraid of Communism during this time because they were afraid that The Communist Party would take over American Allies and that there was a plot to take over the United States. ... If America was to was to become a communist country then just k...

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On the other hand, the communist influence of the Soviet Union was rising and spreading from the east of Europe gradually. ... On the other hand, the civil war had led Greece to a different development from other Communist Eastern European countries since it accepted the aid of the United States. ... However, Britain was concerned that Turkey would be dominated by communist forces without capitalistic nation's help. As a result, British government asked President Truman to help Turkey to resist communist forces. ... The core goal of Truman Doctrine was to check the communist forces to spr...

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At Yalta, Stalin had promised to include non-communists in the new Polish government and to hold free elections. ... The provisional government, established in Poland at the end of the war, was controlled by communists. ... When elections were finally held in Poland in 1947, the communists" provisional government claimed victory. In fact, more than 80% of the votes had voted against the communists. In spite of protests from the United States and Britain, communist rule in Poland continued. ...

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Preventing Vietnam from becoming a communist state would become imperative given the state of affairs in the post World War II era. ... At the collapse of Japan in 1945, Ho Chi Minh led Vietnamese Communists to the liberation of Vietnam. ... The theory was: Vietnam was first in a row of dominos which, if knocked over into communist hands, would lead to the communization of the rest of Southeast Asia. ... In 1953 Eisenhower requested sixty million dollars for French aid, and by 1954 the United States was sustaining eighty percent of the cost of the war between the French and the Communist ...

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