Communism

Abstract

The United States survived World War 1, the Great Depression, and World War 2. The United States faces a new challenge that rips at the heart of the country and causes all Americans to take sides and fears of the unknown who or what would be the next threat to current America, and why Americans feel the need to take sides and the freedoms so many who came to the United States in hopes and dreams of a better way of life for his or her families, which could be easily lost due to McCarthyism.

Anti-Communism and McCarthyism

To understand why communism and McCarthyism threatened the United States, due to the Red Scare struck fear in so many Americans and how one person single handily stirred up an argument in Hollywood.

The Red Scare came after World War 2, when Americans went into a ruckus after the war which was powered by European immigrants, a few radical groups, and the American Communist Party that gained National attention in 1919. A concatenation of bombing thrust the American Communist Party and the years after left dominant effect with little mention in public about any alliance with the American Communist Party. With authors or writers of Katherine Anne Porter characterized the case as “The Never Ending Wrong.”

The Communist Movement remained in the deep darkest corners of the United States after World War 2, and Senator McCarthy would disclose and devastate many people with the tension of mentioning of communism and his or her name in the same breath. In the late 1940’s would see a rise in the Red Scare (Brinkley, 2007). He reestablishes the United States citizens to the New Red Scare, as it stayed in the spotlight due to the media coverage of Senator McCarthy, and the movement held McCarthyism in keeping communist in the minds of the American citizens.

The Democratic Senator from New York, Herbert Lehman believed that McCarthyism held dangers in the United Sates, and spoke to the them at the sixth annual convention of the of...