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An 8 page research paper that focuses on the McCarthy era and how it fitted into the overall political atmosphere of the Cold War. The writer argues that there was a communist threat in the 1950s‹both domestically and abroad, but that McCarthy and other anticommunist transformed this into a political tool for discrediting liberalism and New Deal policies. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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and to a certain extent?this view is correct. The HUAC was an assortment of inept and awkward extremists who were just as interested in discrediting the New Deal and
liberalism as they were in uncovering subversion (Ybarra PG). Nevertheless, numerous experts argue that the federal governments attempts to bolster internal security?however tremendously flawed those attempts were?was in response to
a real Soviet threat (Ybarra PG). Many people who were accused by the committee were communists, and while they did suffer from being blacklisted?they did so "in support of
a case that was neither benign nor remotely progressive " (Ybarra PG). At the time that the anticommunist hysteria was reaching a fever pitch in America, Stalin was in the
process of murdering millions of his countrymen. After World War II, former allies?the United States and the Soviet Union?started a deadly game of one-upmanship that was terrifying in its
possible consequences. The Soviet Union led off by expanding their sphere of influence into Eastern Europe. The US countered this with the formation of the NATO alliance and missiles in
West Germany. The US felt intimidated by Soviet expansionist tendencies and open Soviet hostility towards the West. On the other hand, the Nazi invasion of Russia during World War
II had cost that country dearly. The Soviets, logically, wanted to feel secure, so they also wanted secure, defensible borders. They faced an opponent in the US that had already
demonstrated its willingness to drop nuclear weapons on civilian populations. Considering the devastating power of nuclear weapons, one can hardly blame them for being apprehensive. By 1951, the world
was a scary place. The communist party leadership was opening advocating the violent overthrow of the US government. China had gone communist. The Soviets had exploded their own atomic bomb.
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