... , so long as they fell within the constraints of the agreement. Through the mid to late 1940s, Arevalos" ideas were "fuzzily socialistic", and other than banning the communist party, not many important reforms were taking place. As the Arevalo government lost momentum through the late 1940s, his progress was becoming negligible and challenges started coming in from landowners ... of a Marxist; the Communists " were his closest associates." His presidency marked distinctive departures from past governments, such as; agrarian land reform, continued unionization, close ties with the Communis...

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... could be done to strengthen the shaky pro-American governments in Western Europe, those governments might fall under the control of rapidly growing domestic communist parties."" In February of 1948, a coup in Czechoslovakia, taken over by Stalin's allies, abolished any opposition preventing the Marshall plan from going ... powers in pursuit of international goals through agencies such as a National Security Council (NSC) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The most important anti-communist alliance was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), formed on April 4, 1949. NATO formed...

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... United States, this buffer zone in Europe was no longer needed. Also, many leaders of these nations posed threats to Gorbachev and his policies, remaining firmly entrenched in radically conservative communist policies. Their removal from power thus secured Gorbachev for some time against a conservative backlash. Aid to other Soviet satellite nations such as Cuba, Yemen, and Ethiopia was cut. ... total disarray. Gorbachev had lost credibility due to his distribution of power and toleration of dissent. Pipes continues: The political crisis has two principal aspects; a vertical conflict wit...

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... ). "McCarthyism", as it was called, forced many government officials and Hollywood celebrities to go before McCarthy and the rest of the committee, in order to deny their involvement with the Communist Party. Resulting in lost reputation and in the case of many members of Hollywood, lost work due to blacklisting, this phenomenon revealed the paranoia of the time period. Though McCarthy himself ... was revealed to be a fraud and bully, revelations aided by the blooming technology of television, McCarthyism, or the communist witch hunt, did not end with him. The nation was forever fearful ...

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... of the proletariat became a reality, the foundation was laid for the emancipation of all oppressed groups in society (111). Davis" future attraction to the communist party is a direct result of her enrollment in the communist youth group at Elizabeth Erwin. Following Davis" graduation from Elizabeth Erwin she found herself studying in Europe. While in France she becomes acquainted with Herbert Marcuse ... whenever he appeared, without having to pronounce a single word" (134). Marcuse proved to be a considerable influence on Davis and his interactions with her lead to her intensified inv...

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... the top ten wealthiest countries in the world are the United States as well as Norway. Both of these are well known democracies. Unlike America, North Korea, which is a communist country, is ranked 197 on the list of countries based on growth domestic product. When a country declares war they are also making commitment to fund all of the expenses that ... couldn't partake in any thing in support of relieving international disputes. According to cia.com, the communist Vietnamese government is also usually described as authoritarian. Vietnam ruled by the Vietnamese Communist Party, the onl...

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... the Korean War helped to generate a mass anti-Communism hysteria in America. ("McCarthyism") One of hundreds accused of favoring the Communist party was the owner of Encyclopedia Britannica and Senator of Connecticut, a man by the name of William Benton. McCarthy feared Benton ... himself and his political career was forever ruined. It is apparent that McCarthy felt the threat of Benton exposing the awful nature of the Communist hunts and pointed the finger at him in order to subdue his fear. ("McCarthyism") Another favorite target of McCarthy was Hollywood and its ... be subpoenaed as...

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... and experience existed" (Lowe 1986:20). It also was a period of political organization; Korean leftists emerged from the underground and began to rebuild their communist parties. Immediately following their liberation, the people of Korea began to arrange their own political organizations, " both at the center and in the regions", ... ; they began to despise Americans and those sympathetic to them (Lowe 1986:55). Many North Koreans who did not agree with the party lines that formed during these years typically moved south and many South Koreans with leftist views headed north. The ways th...

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... 1984 presidential election underscored his political popularity which he carried forty nine states and five hundred and twenty five electoral votes. (Grimm, 2013) Through his speeches he repeated his anti-Communist policy that Soviets and Communism, as a whole, would fail. He despised the Soviets and told the country they would fail in anything against America. Ronald Reagan's second term witnessed ... in the office of the presidency at the same time that his enormous scarcities damaged Washington's capability to reply to demands for greater government services. Nonetheless in actuality,...

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... shows that the Rosenberg's had a long history of activities in the communist party. Julius Rosenberg, at the young age of 16, was a doctrinaire member of New York City College's Communist League. The Rosenberg's had close associations with people inside the American communist infrastructure, that the Rosenberg's had face to face communication with communist agents. But the Rosenberg's, contrary to their oath, were deeply committed to ... . Despite the evidence of their participation in these activities, the Rosenberg's plead the Fifth Amendment in response to all questions concerning the...

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... that no other city has such a large influence on all of America. Many people were blacklisted, due to unfounded speculations that they might be in some way associated with the Communist Party. Lastly, the influence that the Cold War had on American popular culture is evident through analysis of the popular music of the 1950s. As a result of the Cold War, American ... his books were considered popular culture because Americans embraced what he was writing about, since Americans were swept away by anti-communism. Subsequently, since Spillane's fiction was filled with anti-communist ideals...

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... increases in production would be achieved primarily through growth in the overall productivity of labor and capital. The lack of productivity was also rooted in the general inefficiency of a communist economy and the subsequent reluctance of workers to strive for greater output. The traditional pattern, Stalin's pattern, was very wasteful. In the 1970-1980 period, available manpower ... Taiwan, and North and South Korea have allocated a disproportionate share of resources to defense without bankrupting their economies. A much more plausible rationale for this was the ineffectiveness of ...

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... being the State council, People's Liberation Army, National People's Congress, Chinese Political Consultative Conference, and the Communist Party. Although all institutions have some influence in how things are done, it is the Communist party that holds dominate power over all of the final decisions to be made. The Communist party strives to ward off opposition and keep an absolute monopoly on power. Chinese citizens have had ... no say in the selection of their new leaders, highlighting that despite the country's three decades of rapid modernization, the government remains an authorita...

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... during this time due to the political nature of films such as The Great Dictator (1940).2 Chaplin was never officially accused of being a communist but the legal troubles and controversy he had endured during the 1940s as well as his connections with known Marxists meant that the ire of ... Michael Chaplin7) called Rupert. Rupert's parents have been jailed for "not giving up names" at a hearing that has been held to investigate communist activities. This is reminiscent of the real life hearings carried out by Joseph McCarthy that provided the same function on behalf of the HUAC. Similarly...

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... illustrates American society's attitude towards the Soviet Union near the end of the cold war. The movie touches upon America's fear of nuclear war, communist espionage, and the threat of communism itself. A frequently recurring theme in WarGames is America's attitude towards the threat of nuclear war. WarGames was written ... is] A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." WarGames also hints at the incredible concern the government has regarding the search for communist spies. The director of the FBI is convinced that David is a spy for the Soviet Union, claiming, "He does f...

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... Lamar, Missouri, in 1884. He grew up in Independence, and for 12 years prospered as a Missouri farmer (Ferrell 2/3). Active in the Democratic Party, Truman was elected a judge of the Jackson County Court in 1922 and he became a Senator in 1934. During World War II he headed the ... slowly recovering from the devastation of the war (Divine 670). Years of depression, food scarce, and resentment called for the growing interest in communist voting and expansion, especially in France and Italy (Divine 670). The Marshall Plan was organized to reverse the possibility of all of Europe ... Nation...

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... ). When asked to produce tangible evidence of this, McCarthy only released one name, Owen Lattimore, which proved to be a nonexistent member of the State Department with no ties to the Communist party (Fariello 91). Nonetheless, McCarthy's claims struck a chord in an already fearful country. The Senator continued on his crusade to rid the government of all who had "anti-American" views ... possibly even opening the door for them were two highly publicized trials regarding espionage and treason. The case of Alger Hiss in 1948 confirmed the possibility that American officials had Communist...

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... the rights championed by the First Amendment to evolve. For example, during World War I, Charles T. Schnenck, the secretary of the American Socialist Party passed out leaflet encouraging young men to resist the draft. He was arrested for impeding the war effort. Naturally, Schnenck attempted to use ... or advocating ideologies that were considered by them to be subversive. The main target of McCarthy's efforts were members of the Communist Party but the Senator also targeted Socialists, anarchists, and foreigners. In the case of Dennis v. the United States, the Supreme Court upheld the ....

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... for Taiwan, which became the last Nationalist stronghold. For two decades the Nationalists were the only government recognized by the United States and the United Nations. But Communist China was admitted to the United Nations in 1971, and in 1972 US President Richard Nixon visited China, beginning the normalization of Chinese-American relations. Since 1949 the ... On June 3 and 4, 1989, the Chinese People's Liberation Army brutally suppressed a prodemocracy demonstration in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, killing several hundred people. Students and workers demonstrating against Communist r...

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... threat from communism. The threat was perceived because of the "domino theory", which was the theory that as one country became communist, the next would and so on. This was shown to be happening when at first China and the North Korea and then Vietnam became ... it would spread all through South-East Asia to Australia. Examples of this was the Korean War in 1950 during which the communist forces which occupied North Korea, which was run by communist Russia, crossed the border and invaded South Korea, which was run by the USA. Forces from Australia immediately moved into the ... Policy"...

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... people of the world look to us for support in maintaining these freedoms." President Harry S. Truman's speech, 12 March 1947. In 1970, Salvador Allende's government in Chile, was the first communist-socialist party anywhere, to be voted in by a democratic election. In 1973, his government was overthrown by a military coup, and taken over by Augusto Pinochet, a military dictator. There is much speculation ... 's "friendly to the USSR", were democratic governments, freely elected by the people. Russia, decided however, that the only government which would ensure its future security, would ...

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... reviving the army and ensuring that it would remain under his control as the monarchy's main power. In 1949 an assassination attempt on the Shah by the pro-Soviet Tudeh Party, resulted in the banning of the Tudehs and the expansion of the Shah's powers. Throughout his political career, Mossadegh supported three goals. The first was to free Iran of foreign ... . As a result of the shortage of weapons, some Iranian nationalist took several Americans as hostages and made demands and ransoms. In 1950, the North Korean communist soldiers poured across the 38th , a neutral zone between the com...

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... 19th-century ideals of the Enlightenment (RoSo, 2002). The motivation of fascism is also disputed as either being one of aspirations (for a cultural "regeneration") or of anxieties (e.g. for a communist revolution); both of these points of view are legitimate (RoSo, 2002). Therefore, there is no one, universal fascism. There are four major, established interpretations of fascism: fascism as a ... propagandists stated that it celebrated godless materialism and selfish individualism (RoSo, 2002). Fascists believed in the Fuehrerprinzip, or "leadership principle," where one person with abso...

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... work full time jobs after acquiring a degree cannot support their families. Karl Marx identifies the interests of these workers in his book called The Communist Manifesto when he states "The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains" (106). If one thing is for sure, it's ... communism. This could be for a number of reasons, the most likely being that most of the countries we've had conflicts with recently are communist nations. However, this should not be the case. We do not have issues with them purely because they are communists, there have always ... monarchs are usually qui...

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... the theme of fear and suspicion being infectious and producing a general hysteria that results in the destruction of public order and rationality, one can look back in time at the communist infiltration in Hollywood in the mid 1900's. During this period of time, communism was thought by some to be the answer to depression, but to most of the United States ... cautious toward "Red Scare" or "Russiaphobia" as it was called. The United States" fear of this caused the people to be suspicious of Hollywood, believing that some directors were broadcasting communist propaganda in their theatric...

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