... 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 it is obvious why it was so popular among the American public. Additionally, books that would normally be considered politically incorrect, and even offensive became very popular, simply ... because they were anti-communist. For example, in Mickey Spillane's novel One Lonely Night, the main male character, Detective Mike Hammer " realizes that Ethel Brighton has continue...

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... It can be argued that the Cold War was inevitable, and therefore no one's fault, due to the differences in the capitalist and communist ideologies. It was only the need for self-preservation that had caused the two countries to sink their differences temporarily during the Second World ... be skewed. The Russians claim, and have always claimed, that Stalin's motives were purely defensive. Stalin's wished to create a buffer zone of Communist states around him to protect Soviet Russia from the capitalist West. In this sense, his moves were not aggressive at all -- they were truly ... f...

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... discuss events happening in China and did not prove Lattimore a Soviet agent. The witness, Louis Budenz, produced by McCarthy was also a joke. Budenz, a former high-ranking Communist official in America now helped the government identify Communist, yet all his information on Lattimore was hearsay. He couldn't explain why he had never previously mentioned Lattimore to the government, or that he had ever ... the North passed the 38th parallel, which was the division of North and South Korea after World War II, the United States sent support to defend South Korea from the communist North K...

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... the firm to employ people who mix in alien movements against the United States government(RM, Springsteen 1949). (RM, Springsteen 1949) The United State government was also concerned with possible communist spies gaining access to federal positions in different departments because of espionage activities held inside America with the aid of U.S. citizens, particularly during World War II (Red Scare). On March ... American Activities Committee was formed in the House of Representatives and was one of the first efforts in investigating communistic activities in the United States. HUAC mainl...

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... come Chiang Kai-Shek can be considered solely responsible for the failure of the KMT to maintain control of China? He manage to practically exterminate the communist during the long march, However later when he should have been rallying the support of the Chinese Peasant and working to improve China's economic conditions ... was passed to Chiang kai-Shek the current military leader of the KMT. In 1926 Chiang Kai-Shek embarked on the Northern Expedition with the communist going ahead and spreading the ideology of Sun Yat sen Paticularily the third one which included Land Reform. The Kmt t...

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... liberal-capitalist USA. This was primarily the cause of China wanting hegemony, meaning the domination by one country over a group of others, against USA and the clashing of capitalist vs. communist ideologies through their foreign policies, which created a period of tensions and hostility. Of all the western imperial powers, the USA acted most favourably towards China in the first half of ... . To gain great power status, China sees it as essential to reunify its national territory, modernise and develop its economy and build a powerful military . The foreign policy objectives of a commu...

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... had the greatest armed force in the world, and the United States had the atomic bomb. So, UN forces were establishing positions along the 38th parallel against invading Communist forces, which included Chinese communist troops. The Joint Chiefs of Staff were fearful of being drawn into a trap that would further Stalin's plan for European conquest, and sent message to Macarthur. General ... attention be called to his order transmitted, and any further statements by Macarthur must be coordinated as prescribed in the order. The President had also directed that in the event Communist militar...

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... attempted to contain the worldwide spread of communism and the influence of the Soviets. American leaders met with varying degrees of success as they employed a range of methods to limit communist control, including the formation of alliances, the threat of nuclear weapons or other military force, covert military opposition, efforts at diplomacy and cooperation, and confrontation with the Soviets. The ... an increase in such operations, which continued in Afghanistan and developed in Angola, Nicaragua and Cambodia. As a result of these aid programs, which enabled opposing groups to figh...

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... his past adventures, including some questionable tax returns, began catching up with him, he needed an issue that would obscure all this. In the 1950's he found his issue, Communist power and subversion. McCarthy, whose name has become a analogue for demagoguery, first caught the public eye during the feverish Red Scare that followed the conviction of the former State ... taking in not only writers, intellectuals, movie actors, journalists and scientists, but also senior army officers and even President Truman himself. With the war going poorly in Korea and communist advances in Eastern...

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... brutal attack was Mao ZeDong. He believed the way to power was through the peasants and not through the wealthy. At this, time Communist parties began to redistribute already owned landed to peasants. The Communists became known as "The Red Bandits" and Jieshi wanted them gone. He ... began to organize extermination campaigns to get rid of them. In 1934 the Communist party had made a stand and traveled for over 6,000 miles. Twenty thousand out of the hundred thousand had survived. This became known as the Long ... March and stood as a symbol of Communist heroism. Jieshi was forced to fo...

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... - Now days the Truman Doctrine is thought to have become an "ideological shield - by which America could explain any threats to the Western system as communist inspired not as a fault of the system. However the Soviet's saw this as a very aggressive move. They also thought the Marshall Plan was a ... Russian response to the Marshall plan while Cominform was the response to the Truman Doctrine. Cominform was designed to strengthen the ties between the European communist countries. Comecon was the economic portion of Cominform and was aimed at strengthening Cominform. These policies led t...

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... major defiance state that later helped to shape the outcome of the Cold War. Vietnam had been divided into two, in the midst of a communist administration in the North under Ho Chi Minh and an egalitarian government in the South under Ngo Dinh Diem. The Vietnam War became a proxy ... destroy South Vietnam. Ho used guerilla warfare in South Vietnam, piloted by Viet Cong divisions, with the target of bringing together the country under communist decree (Westdad, Cuban and Vietnamese Challenges). The United States, seeking to contain the swell of communism, trained the Army of the Republic ...

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... world. One of these countries was Russia where some people disagreed with their government structure, so a group of people enrolled in the communist party creating the Soviet Union. Their goal was to spread communism and gain more power to dominate the entire world. First, they ... Soviets on February 1946, George F. Kennan an American diplomat in Moscow proposed a policy of containment. This policy's purpose was preventing any extension of communist rule to other countries (Doc B). Also in 1948, under the Truman Doctrine, the United States pledged to support any person, anywhere, who w...

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... countries including England, Italy, and France were 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 drifting to communism (Divine 670). The plan ... leadership from the Nationalist leaders resulted in the Nationalists to lose countless battles against the Communists during their civil war (Ferrell 113). The Truman administration later concl...

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... several thousands miles from Vietnam, on Korean peninsula bloody Korean War ended with July 27, 1953 cease fire agreement between communist North Korea backed by China and US along with UN. Communist expansion has been feared much by the United States, especially after the Korean War. Cold war begins to escalade dramatically ... from 1951. In 1951 North Korea backed by communist China carried aggression against South Korea, China conquers Tibet. 1962 Cuban missile crisis bring world as close to nuclear war as never before ... like France and United Kingdom, created deadly tensions. Am...

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... faith and his patriotism in that two day conference in Indianapolis, Welch and the John Birch Society set forth on a crusade to enlighten America about the a very real Conspiracy of a Communist coup. John Birch, the organization's namesake was a fundamentalist Baptist missionary. He knew at the age of eleven that he wanted to become a missionary. The New American reported in its ... needed to strategically organize fronts against Communism. If they were to spread their resources across America, they could stop the spread of Communism that goes under the radar since, no Communist would ...

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... Yugoslavia. Tito, as general secretary of the YCP, began military operations to fight against invading nations. The Axis also invaded the Soviet Union. In retaliation, Tito had members of the Communist party organize and carry out guerilla attacks on Axis forces. During this time a Yugoslavian leader, Colonel Draza Mihajlovic, was gaining recognition. Unlike Tito, Mihajlovic wanted to restore the old ... the Serbs, Croats, and Montenegrins; people who traditionally hated each other. Yugoslavia became an active member of the United Nations, involved in foreign policy, and became the most...

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... that the shift of power from centralized one-party system system to multi-party democracy might turn into bloody revolution proved unfounded owing to the presence on both sides, the Communist Party and the democratic opposition, of peacefully-minded reformists committed to a peaceful solution, while the Catholic Church managed to cool down some militant opposition fractions. The government's inability ... freely contested; virtually all of these were won by candidates supported by Solidarity. The failure of the communists at the polls produced a political crisis. The roundtable agreement...

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... has established itself as a world power. Truman caused relations with the Russians to worsen right away by submitting the Truman doctrine which "aided" Turkey and Greece by freeing them of communist rule, many more were killed. The Marshal plan came shortly afterwards ensuring American aid to reconstruct Europe, preventing communism at all costs. Having a division of Europe between the east and ... almost unnoticeably and wouldn't be discovered until it was way too late and consumption was unavoidable. "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" was a way more aggressive portrayal of the commu...

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... spread of Communism both inside and outside of the United Sates. Above all the American government was determined to prevent the spread of the Communist Party in the United States. This determination would give rise to the most feared man of the time, Joseph McCarthy, and thus the ... Hiss was placed on trial for accusations dating back to the 1930's. Throughout the trial, he stated that he had never belonged to the Communist Party and the only evidence that the FBI had were the allegations by Whittaker Chambers. Chambers would eventually bring forth paper documents supporting his ... ...

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... if the popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower could be drafted. Truman received the Democratic Party nomination, and beat Republican candidate Dewey by over two million votes. Truman wanted collective defense against Communist aggression, the answer to this was N.A.T.O. It's purpose was to enhance the stability, well-being, and freedom of its members by means of a system of collective security. Congress ... an aggressor. As U.N. soldiers approached the Chinese border, China crossed into North Korea and began driving U.N. forces back toward the South. General MacArthur wanted to extend forc...

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... Korean military positions on the 38th parallel it would help to speed up the Cold War that was just beginning between the capitalists West and communist East. Near the end of the Second World War, Soviet Forces invaded the Japanese provinces of Manchuria and Korea. When Japan surrendered the U.S. ... the NKPA drive. It proved to be a disaster. Everywhere American units broke and ran. The undermanned and under equipped men sent to fight the communist's where being defeated everywhere. Dean started to relieve officers and rectify the situation but to no avail. After Taejon was captured on ...

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... Eastern European countries and then throughout the west. The Warsaw Pact is, overlooked part of the Cold War, was a key factor in the communist countries and in relations to N.A.T.O. During World War Two, the Soviet Union's Red Army liberated Eastern Europe from Nazi Germany control. The Red Army ... friendship, cooperation, and mutual assistance in a time of need. It was not created for the sole purpose of making every country in Europe Communist. In 1956, Nikita S. Khrushchev changed the amount of Soviet control of the Warsaw Pact by removing Soviet forces from the other countries in ...

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... movement and sent in fourteen thousand troops, however, they failed to stop communism taking over Russia. In December 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R) was created, under the communist control of the ruthless, Joseph Stalin. President Woodrow Wilson, and the United States, offered an alternative to communism. Wilson had initially kept the United States neutral in the Great War ... these two great countries. America fully agreed with the "Iron Curtain" speech." (Isaacs & Downing, Transworld Publishers, 1998. Pg. 44) After Britain declared it could no longer support ...

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... Prior to the atomic bomb and later the hydrogen bomb, it was thought that any weapon could be defended against. The problem with the communist countries of Russia was their doctrine of totalitarianism. The main focus of the time was building an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), and the ... types of warfare, such as political, economical, and psychological. The United States formed the Counter-Intelligence Agency as a means to resist the communist state. The rest of the world suffered from economic crisis and some were open to the ideas of communism for resolution. The United Sta...

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