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This 6-page paper examines the impact of the Cold War and the "Red Scare" of the 1940s and 1950s on civil liberties in the United States. Also under discussion are why McCarthyism and fear of communism occurred in the first place. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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(a list in which peoples names were put on because they were communist sympathizers). Yet fear of communism didnt just come about - people didnt wake up one day and
suddenly become afraid of "Reds." Rather, the fear of communism was stoked over several years - as a result, in an effort to combat the "Red Scare," the House of
Un-American Activities (of which Senator Joseph McCarthy was in charge) ended up breeding suspicion and distrust, while spreading the myth that civil liberties were trampled in the battle against communism.
Muravchik points out that author John Haynes, in his book Red Scare or Red Menace?, notes that McCarthy stoked anti-Communist hysteria grew
out of a sense of betrayal (Muravchik, 1996). Although Stalin had ruled the Soviet Union during World War II, this country was a U.S. ally during that war (Muravchik, 1996).
Although the Soviet Union was considered by the U.S. to be a trustworthy ally, events during the late 1940s convinced the U.S. otherwise (Muravchik, 1996). Within a five-year period, the
United States saw the formation (and subjugation) of Eastern Europe, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin blockade, communism take hold in China, news that the formula for the atomic bomb had
been stolen and North Koreas invasion of South Korea (Muravchik, 1996). Worse still, all of this took place in accordance with the Soviet Union, a former trustworthy ally (Muravchik, 1996).
President Harry Truman, along with his administration, introduced containment of the communist menace overseas with a "full-out, anti-Communist crusade at home" (Curwick,
2003). At this point (and because of the Soviet Unions hunger to capture land and countries), the Soviet threat was considered real, with American Communists suspected of cooperation with the
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