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A 6 page (4 pp. + 2 pp. Annotated Bibliography) paper that evaluates the Communist hysteria that gripped America during the late 1940s and early 1950s and evaluates the allegations that led to the arrest and trial of the New York couple on espionage charges. Specifically considered are whether they received a fair trial led to their arrest, conviction, and ultimately their execution in June 1953 in light of the rampant anti-Communist sentiments of the time. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGjuleth.rtf
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for the same fate as Hitlers Germany during WWII, the U.S.S.R. under Josef Stalin began broadening their power base as a protective measure. It wasted no time in securing
Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, and Romania under their Red umbrella, with Czechoslovakia following in 1948 (Wannall 5). There was also a new, aggressive strategy in place that targeted the United
States as an enemy, which resulted in the construction of what Winston Churchill referred to as an Iron Curtain, with a Berlin blockade (Wannall 5). The Eastern European threat
quickly escalated to the Far East, when the Communist rebels of Mao Tse-tung claimed China as another jewel in the Marxist crown (Wannall 5). The Cold War finally became very
personal when, in the summer of 1948, two defected couriers for Soviet intelligence, Elizabeth Terrell Bentley and Whittaker Chambers, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) that at least
two dozen American traitors were trading secrets and influencing policy at the highest levels of government (Wannall 5). Among the most high profile was Alger Hiss, who was a
senior State Department assistant to President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference and had also played an influential role in the creation of the United Nations (Wannall 5).
Harry Dexter White had been Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and was responsible for all matters pertaining to foreign economic affairs (Wannall 5). Solomon Adler, one of Whites deputies
at the Treasury Department in China, was initially cleared after being investigation, but after his resignation he dedicated himself to working on behalf of Chinese Communists (Wannall 5). Then,
there was FDRs administrative assistant, Lauchin Currie, who was not only privy to sensitive intelligence information, but had reportedly informed the Soviets that Uncle Sam "was on the verge of
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