... Communism, too, was spreading seemingly unrestrained through the world. America immediately became aware. Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have lists of names of people that secretly held allegiances with the communist parties, lists that often contained names of many high ranking public officials and also celebrities. The media, which was so important in the fifties, picked up on McCarthy's "blacklists ... . As a result, this began a series of showy and well-publicised raids against radicals. Striking without warning and without warrants, Palmer's men smashed union offices and the hea...

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... American military "advisers" to Vietnam. The southern based republic of Vietnam was in desperate need of help against the Viet Cong, which was the Communist funded North Vietnamese. This was actually the beginning of two wars. The first was a struggle between Vietnamese nationalists and the French colonial regime which ... the Communists the rest would follow like dominoes. After Kennedy was assassinated Lyndon B. Johnson stepped into the role of Vietnamese protector and current Communist bane. He increased the United States troops and started a plan to bomb the North Vietnam area. Durin...

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... totalitarianism and democracy while fellow fascist supporters (Russia, Italy, and Germany) aided Spain's path to totalitarianism (which ended up appearing as meaningless slaughtering of civilians). In the Orient, recently turned communist Japan started tearing apart at China, killing hundreds of thousands of Chinese in order to acquire more living space (a World War II trend). Still, the League of Nations and the ... world economy, everyone was so worried about their own country's affairs that they didn't bother with other countries. This is the time that Italy, Japan, Spain, and German...

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... the leader of the Soviet Union. Upon Lenin's death, Stalin assumed political power is wanting to transform the USSR into a communist nation-state and also wanting the Soviet Union to industrialize. Stalin started his plan of turning the Soviet Union into a Communist state started when he implemented the first of many Five-Year Plans and changed their economy to command economy. Prior ... to own farmlands and decide what to produce was established through Lenin. Small private businesses were allowed to produce products and sell them to consumers. Turning the nation-state to a communist o...

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... organization", but left the individual opportunity for real personal activity." Hitler gained even more support as membership increased to hundreds and eventually thousands of communist people. Hitler gained even more popularity with his symbol of the Swastika, an emblem that many anti-Semitic political parties wore. By the ... Germany and was carried out by far more horrendous situations. At the end of World War II, the monarchy was abolished and the communist party leader Marshal Tito proclaimed the country the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, and named himself the Prime Minist...

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... were looking for new leadership. The citizens knew that even though Lenin said he organized his government on democratic principles that in reality the Communist party held all the power. Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin were among Lenin's revolutionary/ supporters. They both helped create the Soviet state. After ... Lenin died because of a stroke at age 54, these/ two men (Trotsky and Stalin) became bitter rivals for control of the Communist Party. The outcome of this/ struggle would determine the future course of the Soviet Union. Stalin, Lenin's successor/ would aim at dramatically tra...

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... organization", but left the individual opportunity for real personal activity." Hitler gained even more support as membership increased to hundreds and eventually thousands of communist people. Hitler gained even more popularity with his symbol of the Swastika, an emblem that many anti-Semitic political parties wore. By the ... Germany and was carried out by far more horrendous situations. At the end of World War II, the monarchy was abolished and the communist party leader Marshal Tito proclaimed the country the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, and named himself the Prime Minist...

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... or her beliefs without being caught by the Secret Police State organization. "Opposing the Nazi Government brought the risk of denunciation." The left wing communist party on the other hand was demolished by clever manipulation. When a former communist burnt down the Reichstag, Hitler convinced the nation that this event was proof that communists were a threat to Germany. A decree for the Protection of ... the Reich) was passed. This abolished the Reichstag and changed the entire German constitution in Hitler's favour. It allowed him to become a dictator and completely outlaw his main o...

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... a sudden the support of the American's and the aid pans were withdrawn, Germany was again isolated and the economy was in crisis. The rise in Unemployment and a renewed fear of a Communist uprising gave Hitler's messages a new importance. People were again interested in the views of this extremist party. In a land where the government was struggling to control the economy, the people ... and more desperate, people were more and more ready to listen to the ideas of Hitler. When the great depression struck, many Germans accepted his explanation that it was a Jewish-Communist plot. He had ...

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... Nazi propaganda. Nazi propaganda made Hitler look like the only leader who could save Germany and said he was destined to become national leader. Many Germans liked the Nazis' anti-Communist views. Goebbels manipulated propaganda very well, he modified many effective posters with clever slogans such as, "Work, freedom and bread". He also organised mass parades and rallies so everyone in ... to defend them from the communists. The deal with Von Papen led to Hitler gaining office as chancellor and eventually becoming a dictator. Goebbels' intelligent propaganda then built on the anti-Comm...

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... Germany. This led to uprisings from these two sections of society. For example the Sparticast uprising was due to communists who wanted to overthrow the Weimer regime and set up a communist state. When the Weimer republic did show strength like when it crushed the Sparticist Rebellion by using the Freikorps, it was forced to disband the Freikops by the orders of ... ridiculous, although people who had taken out large loans (such as industrialists who were mostly against the Weimar Republic and on the side of the right since they feared the communist and their anti-capitalism) benefited,...

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... also raise in rebellion, the Socialist proletariat of Europe against their governments."1 Lenin believed that once a revolution occurred in Russia the notions would spread to the rest of Europe, with a Communist Russia at the helm. As a younger man Stalin agreed whole-heartedly with Lenin's views but as he matured with in the system his ideas began to deviate. Stalin altered the ... new focus of the Bolsheviks should be a peaceful coexistence with the West, while building a Socialist society at home. In 1935 Stalin published A Short Course: The History of the All-Union Communist Party. ...

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... democrats of the Weimar Republic who betrayed them at Versailles and brought about the social and economic disorder of the 1920's and 1930's. The other choice was communism. To be communist during this period, however, meant that one had to identify with Russia and the radical working class who were striking throughout Stevens 5 Germany and, in the eyes of most Germans ... to the person who made them feel this way (Building Up German Hegemony In Central Europe 1933-1938). Yet another important ally of Hitler was big business. Fearful of the communist worker riots exploding all over Germ...

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... democratic ideals (all new states which emerged from the war, initially were dedicated to democracy. In addition one of the most important happenings was the creation of the world's first communist state. People were mostly looking for someone to blame for the war thus there was a general desire to reconstruct, repair, restore, recover and repay, in other words to turn back ... , after the letdown of the US to guarantee French security, was left with fear of a possible future German attack. The Eastern countries, like the French, feared both a German invasion and a communist advance west...

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One major concern of the Americans during World War I was the communist influence. There was a group of men known as the "Hollywood Ten." They were put on trial in front of the House Committee of Un-American Activities to review the effects ... of Communism in America. This group consisted of writers and producers that were called to testify whether or not they were members of the growing Communist party. Due to the refusal to testify these men were put in jail and blacklisted. There were many men that were a part of the "Hollywood Ten." A few are Alvah Bessie ... ...

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... wing. Only in Bavaria did the communists gain control, setting up a republic in March 1919 which was ruthlessly crushed by the Freikorps in May of the same year. The main communist group in Germany at the time, the KPD, failed to make any huge differences in the country as they did not act quickly and when they did, it was to ... to take power. This is shown most in the opposition to the Kapp Putsch where the revolutionaries were divided over offers from the government which allowed the army to prevent a communist state being set up. A greater political strength was the constitution. It...

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... nuclear arsenals. Reagan's main military conflicts all had to do with communism. During his terms he mounted a major campaign to overthrow the Sandinistas, the communist party which ran Nicaragua, sent military equipment to Muslim guerrillas fighting the Communist government of Afghanistan, and joined with South Africa in aiding guerrillas fighting the Marxist government of Angola. Although the United States abandoned isolationism as ... ...

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... . The post war years saw strikes and demonstrations organised by the working classes and the growing strength of trade unions. Terrorists acts carried out by Communists and the emergence of a Communist state in Russia, ensured that Fascist parties grew up throughout Europe in opposition to Communism. These parties gained they support of capitalists, industrialists and people of property. Fascism was at ... . It opposed its internationalism, its materialism, and its fixation with class, concentrating instead on loyalty to one's own country as the supreme good. Industrialists and businessme...

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... March 1918, changed the war completely. In April 1917, the United States Congress declared war on Germany, bringing the United States army into the war. In March 1918, the new communist government in Russia signed a treaty with Germany, extricating the Russians from the conflict entirely. Though out of chronological order, we will treat the impact of the Russian Revolution on World ... home, European leaders were also keenly aware of encouraging internal dissent among their enemies' populations. Germany was the most successful at this, empowering unrest in Russia by smuggling the exiled...

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... more than the next seventy years. This essay will show how a small, radical political party, who called themselves the Bolsheviks, took hold of the nation and founded the world's first communist state. It will also explain why the various opponents of the Bolsheviks were unable to take control, and what the factors were that were working against their cause. The early ... strife, a World War, and an end to centuries of Tsarist oppression. With this culmination of events, the Bolsheviks were able to seize power in Russia and establish the world's first communist state. ...

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... point was "how the benefits and burdens of modern industrial society would be distributed" (Stackelberg, p. 64). The life that was taken in this battle was liberal democracy in Central Europe. Communist parties were pushing their labour movement on to the people that inevitably made a large portion of the middle classes shift further to the right. People were willing to try new ... relatively new political party that was founded after World War One to magnetize the middle classes to a Nationalist cause. The DAP held many anti-socialist views as well as anti communist views. In February ...

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... middle and upper classes of Germany (Riedlsperger, Internet). Many Germans began expressing doubt in the ability of the Weimar government to handle the needs of its people. In Russia, the Communist Party swept into power. Some Germans became increasingly worried that Communism would soon spread to Germany and began electing representatives of a new party that had emerged. These new politicians began ... Germany. To further strengthen his position, Hitler called for new elections. Prior to the elections, a fire tore through the Reichstag, destroying it. Hitler, once again stirring German...

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... influenced by the Bolsheviks in Russia. They wanted to establish a dictatorship of proletariat. In December 1918, they showed their contempt for all the other so-called Socialist parties founded the Communist Party. In January 1919, the Spartacists led by Karl Liebnecht and Rosa Luxemburg, occupied almost every major city in Germany. The government managed to defeat the Communists only because it ... Freikorp' (Independent volunteers regiments raised by ex-army officers). It was a sign of the governments weakness that it had to depend on forces which did not itself control. The two Comm...

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... the Nazi party found itself can be found in Neidenburg. In 1928, the NSDAP picked up 2.3% of the total vote. By the 1930 elections, this figure had risen to 25.8%. Communist and extreme-left parties also began to pick up votes. In this time of economic turmoil, voters began to turn to either the extreme left or far right. Clashes between ... army felt they could identify with Hitler. Hitler was a strong leader. He focused on national unity and destroying internal enemies, and the restoration of the German economy. He was anti-communist but not entirely anti-capitalist because if he had ...

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... 1907, thus creating a Triple Entente and infuriating the Kaiser. Economic and Imperial rivalry is another issue. One of the earliest interpretations of the 1914 crisis was that given by Russian communist leader Lenin. In his pamphlet Imperialism " The Highest Form of Capitalism (1916) he argued that capitalist countries were bound to engage in competition for new markets and fields of ... ...

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