Cause And Effect Of The Second Red Scare

After the ending of the World War II, that’s when the Cold war started to begin. The Cold War affected the politics and also society of the United States by making it physically stronger and they wanted to have their own sense of power and also wanted control over everything. All the presidents during the Cold War were given an enemy. These enemy’s that were given to the presidents were someone whom could allow them some sort of control in which they wanted in the first place. That’s where they came up with the phrase “evil Communists”. This phrase basically meant that it allowed the presidents during the Cold War the ability to become so excited and also concerned about the problem during this time the sense of control to increase. For this

The Second Red Scare was led by Joseph McCarthy whom is a American senator and it began in the 1950’s and this was caused because of the Cold War. The Second Red Scare was also after World War II was ending. The Second Red Scare was known as the “fear–driven movement” in which spread all across the United States of America. Basically the Second Red Scare was when the Americans started to fear communism. One main reason for this is because of the rise of the communist in China. Joseph McCarthy started accusing everyone of being communist. “New Dealers committed to feminism, racial equality, and the end of economic exploitation; how fellow travelers became virulent cold warriors; and the trauma the Second Red Scare inflicted upon upstanding American families.” This quote depicts how important the Second Red Scare was back in the 1950’s. It wasn’t only important but it was also very scary to many

It all started with the United States and the Soviet Union both had different values. The United States represented capitalism and also democracy while the Soviet Union was communist and authoritarian. With the United States and the Soviet Union being two totally different this became a huge conflict between the two and was also global. The cold war was very different from all well most of the other wars that occurred. Even though the Cold war differed from the other wars, none of the other wars had an impact on American society and foreign policy and etc such as the Cold War had. The American economy In 1946-1960, most people seen this as the best time in all American history for many different reasons in which was some people seen the economy as “booming” the education was good. Also the housing and people had a good sense of the future. “During the Cold War in particular, historic sites such as Colonial Williamsburg helped “delineate principles that set the Free World apart from the Communist Bloc.” This meant that while the Cold war was going on the world was free while the others were communist. Military industrial complex is basically the comfortableness between the governments and organizations. President Dwight D. Eisenhower immortalized the military industrial complex on January 17, 1961. Basically the military industrial