The Cold War At Home: The Red Scare

10. The Cold War at Home What was the Red Scare? How did it affect Americans?

The Red Scare, was the increasing problem of the people’s fear towards communist activities. It sported the hunting for suspected communist supporters, which was known as McCarthyism. McCarthyism impacted on American society and represented the looping concern that Americans had developed over the fear of communist within their society. The Red Scare occurred during the start of the Cold War with the Soviets after the end of World War II. By communism in Eastern Europe and China, people were scared that communism will corrupt their modern society. Americans believed, communism was going to completely put their lives into distraught. This is was not the best analogy

McCarthy was the judge, jury and even an executioner who sought to make sure no one was safe from McCarthyism. Accusations of treason or disloyalty without conducting the right evidence is McCarthyism. Simply put, it was to minimize the threat of communism and convicting suspects who deemed to be a security threat to the US. McCarthy's outlandish way of campaign of identifying and eliminating suspected communists enraged the community. Supported by the media and used propaganda as a tool to get it where it needed too and that was to fool people into supporting it fully. Then, McCarthyism slowly weakened and lasted from 1950 to 1954. Most of the reason McCarthyism came to an end was the public’s change of view of the court. President Eisenhower banned McCarthy from the White House. With his power diminishing McCarthy was done, he drunk himself to death and his name went to shambles. Thus, the Supreme Court took down McCarthyism. But the debates defending his role are still progressing to this

Julius Rosenberg a machinist of radar equipment and an employee for the U.S. Army Signal Corps, arrested for allegedly passing atomic secrets to Russia. He became a leader in the Young Communist League, where he met Ethel in 1936. She wanted to be an actress and singer, unfortunately she took a secretarial job at a shipping company. She became involved in labor disputes and joined the Young Communist League, where she met Julius. The couple was also charged for speaking out their public opinions. In 1942, the Rosenbergs became full members in the American Communist Party. But soon dropped out, Julius's espionage activities felt like his main specialty. Soon he was fired from his job after his membership gave out. On June 17, 1950, he was arrested on suspicion by Sgt. David Greenglass, Ethel's younger brother and a former machinist, who also confessed to passing secret information to the USSR through a courier, Harry Gold. Harry Gold was a Philadelphia chemist and served as the primary witnesses in the trial. Ethel was arrested on August 11, 1950. The Rosenbergs were tried as spies, convicted and then executed. Evidence was presented in their case, they were communists, had circumstantial evidence (conflicting stories by Gold and Greenglass, sketches that Greenglass presented and government secrecy with its own evidence). Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death