He actually came up with a list of people inside the U.S. government that were affiliated with communist activity. He also later on helped catch Alger Hiss who was an actual U.S.S.R. spy. Thanks to the president during that time period (JFK) he resolved it by agreeing to take our missiles out of Turkey if they take theirs out of Cuba. After resolving this crisis the Red Scare went downhill from there and eventually we acted like it never
Joseph McCarthy was a supporter of the HUAC. McCarthy was very determined to catch the Soviet spies, and to eliminate any communism in America. He thought it would destroy democracy in the US. McCarthy even harmed innocent Americans if that’s what it took to get rid of the communism in America. The HUAC tested Lionel Stander because he was a part of
In conclusion the Cold War was caused by U.S. fear of the spread of communism and other events. The United States means of control was to contain communism at all cost. Many treaties were put in place to protect the two superpowers. The Soviet Union tried to influence other nations with communism and the United States tried with democracy. This battle of the superpowers lasted for fifty years.
Organized industries critical to war efforts and it's refusal to stop strikes during the war. Many leaders were arrested because of the Espionage
After World War II, all of the America was in fear and terror that communism in the face of the Soviet Union could gain world domination, especially since half of Europe was under the influence of Stalin. In connection with this, in 1947, the 33rd U.S. President Harry Truman ordered a review of all government employees. There were many willing to save the country from communists, but the most successful of all was the senator from Wisconsin, Joseph Raymond McCarthy. February 9, 1950, he gave a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia in which he declared that the United States Government was filled with Communists and in the Office of Dean Acheson who was the Secretary of State under Truman, the number had reached 205 people. This event is considered to be
America needed an excuse to invade their country to obtain these resources. There excuses ranged from overthrowing the communist regime to them holding nuclear secrets and arms. To the general public these seemed like good enough reasons to intervene; but all the excuses they used were not legitimate. For example, it was the United States fault there was a dictator is Iraq to begin with in the 70’s, “US intelligence helped Saddam's Ba`ath Party seize power for the first time in 1963. Evidence suggests that Saddam was on the CIA payroll as early as 1959, when he participated in a failed assassination attempt against Iraqi strongman Abd al-Karim Qassem.
The second case involved the Rosenbergs giving information on the atomic bomb to the Soviets. The Rosenbergs were found guilty and executed. In the 50s Senator McCarthy began accusing people of being communist without proof. If someone challenged him he would respond with another accusation This pattern was later dubbed McCarthyism. He finally met his downfall when he tried to accuse the army of being communist in 1954.
Domestic Aspects of the Cold war Many things related to the cold war where domestic, Created in 1938, HUAC (house of Un-American Activities Committee) investigated allegations of communists in the U.S. Many people feared the committee because of its power to subpoena anyone and had a lot of power. in 1947 president Truman issues Executive Order 9835 which creates the Loyalty Program. The loyalty program will investigate government employees in a hope to root out anyone with communism sympathies in American government. The loyalty program ran background checks on 3 million government employees.
1 The USA was deeply hostile towards the Soviet Union and fearing a spread of communism, adopted a policy of containment. 4 In Vietnam the target of containment was Ho Chi Minh and the Vietminh front he had created in 1941. Ho and his chief lieutenants were communists with long-standing connections to the Soviet Union. 5 Hoping to halt a takeover by the communist North Vietnamese (led by Ho Chi Minh) 6, US officials chose to support the anti-Communist prime minister of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem1,. As opposed to the other superpower, America got directly involved, sending not only financial aid1 but actively participating in the military effort.
It is now clear that Julius, an avid communist, had for some time been disclosing U.S. military secrets to the U.S.S.R. from his post in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. David Greenglass, who himself had worked on the Manhattan Project, disclosed nuclear secrets to Julius, who in turn passed the information to Harry Gold — a courier for the espionage ring — who in turn passed it to Anatoly Yakovlev — the Soviet vice-consul in New York City. Soon after Gold was arrested in May 1950 for giving U.S. and British atomic secrets to Russia, Greenglass and Rosenberg were detained on the basis of their association with Gold. By cooperating with federal agents in proving the guilt of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Greenglass and Gold were given lighter sentences (Greenglass received 15 years in prison in a separate trial and Gold received 30 years in prison). The courts also made clear that if either of the Rosenbergs would admit to their espionage, they too could avoid execution, but the couple, loyal to their cause and riding a wave of public support, continued to adamantly state their innocence until their death on the day of June 19,