During all periods of history, America has created propaganda targeted for different people and events. Almost directly after the World War II propaganda ended, Cold War propaganda started. This was mostly propaganda against the Soviet Union. Thus started the period we refer to as The Red Scare, when mass hysteria over communism reigned. The government’s ...
COMMENTARY | Sometimes I can almost feel the fear and nervous energy that people ducking the 1950’s McCarthyite Communist witch hunts felt when I think about the current manufactured controversy of creationism vs. evolution as viable curricula in public schools. Then again, I live in Tennessee. It isn’t good policy to advertise a non-religious mindset ...
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, ...
Premiering in 1953, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible was a scathing attack on the Communist scare of the era in the guise of a dramatization of the witch hunts that took place in Salem in the 1690s. This play is an important work in American literature and a cornerstone in studying American history as well. This ...
You got to love America. Our freedom, our passion, our constant pursue of happiness is the envy of the world. I know it first hand. I was born in a communist country that was in a constant state of oppression, and people dreamed of coming to this great land. Still, there are times when we ...
The National Security Council’s report, NCS 68, which was drafted in 1950 has widely been viewed as the model that shaped United Stated foreign policy from its inception- the beginning of the Korean War- until the end of the Cold War. But was its extreme “offensive” approach aimed at deterring the Soviet Union from future ...
American History Research Paper: The Cold War For decades after the second World War, the American people believed that the United States was engaged with the Soviet Union in a “Cold War” that could escalate into a nuclear crisis at any moment. The media infiltrated the people with the terror of bombing, and the paranoia ...