Okay, I know Marxism is still a dirty word in America, though not quite the dirty word it was from the 50’s through the 80’s, but there are still a few of us out there who have seen through the brainwashing techniques of school films, commercials, television and theatrical propaganda that turned Marxism into the ...
The Red Scare was nothing new to Americans by the 1950s. It had sporadically popped up here and there ever since the late 1850s. Whenever there was a slight scare of un-American activity or threat of government upheaval, there would be a “witch-hunt” for communist and communist sympathizers. Joseph McCarthy and anti-Communism In early 1950, ...
In 1950, a Republican Senator from the state of Wisconsin started a movement of anti-Communism in America. This was during the Cold War when the United States and the Soviet Union were in complete competition as the two major superpowers of the world. Joseph McCarthy was this Senator from Wisconsin his accusations that large numbers ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States. He was 43 at the time of his election and the only Roman Catholic to be elected at the time. His presidency only last approximately 1000 days because on November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was struck by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas, Texas ...
