Joseph McCarthy
East Berlin.
It was a program created to search out and locate any unamerican activities going on. It looked for submersive and communist activities also.
The cold war ideology changed wartime alliances after WWII by bringing the two super powers, the United States and Russia, head to head on opposing sides even though during the war they were allies with a common enemy. During the war, both super powers were set against Nazi Germany, but they both had different ideas as to how the world should be ran afterwards and came to blows over it. beryl1963
Two major conflicts between the East and West during the late 1940s and early 1950s were the Berlin Blockade (1948-1949) and the Korean War (1950-1953). The Berlin Blockade was a Soviet attempt to cut off access to West Berlin, leading to a major airlift by Western allies to supply the city. The Korean War saw North Korea, backed by the Soviet Union and China, invade South Korea, which was supported by the United States and a coalition of United Nations forces, marking a significant military confrontation in the Cold War. These events highlighted the ideological and geopolitical tensions of the era.
In the 1940s and 1950s, Americans had a cultural hysteria about the Soviet threat.
Money and jobs (employment) were geared up to fight communism.
The Red Scare was the promotion of the fear of communism and radical left politics spreading widely.
The Red Scare was the promotion of the fear of communism and radical left politics spreading widely.
The Communist Bloc was created in the late 1940s and early 1950s by the Soviet Union. Essentially, the Soviet Union took over the countries and forced them into communism.
Women in the 1940s and 1950s typically dabbed the end of red or pink lipstick with their finger and applied the color to their cheeks as 'blush'.
US strategy was to keep the upper edge over the Soviets and keep communism from spreading.
1940s and 1950s
The United States fought both Cuba and Russia to fight the spread of communism. One effect of this was the Cold War which lasted through much of the 1950s and 1060s.
With military force.
Communism and the Red Scare
Communism