Communism

Senator Joseph McCarthy is most known for leading anti Communist movement in the United States during the Cold War, often accusing people of anti American activity with little to no basis for doing so. Americans during that time were deeply afraid of Communism, which allowed him to gain popularity.

From a painting I saw, they were colored blue.

These are the current commmunist states and their leaders:

China (Hu Jintao - since 2003),

Cuba (Raúl Castro - since 2008),

Laos (Choummaly Sayasone - since 2006),

Vietnam (Nguyễn Minh Triết - since 2006),

North Korea (Eternal President of the Republic - Kim Il-Sung, Supreme leader of North Korea - Kim Jong-Il (since 1994)

What was the name of the US Foreign policy that was designed to limit the influence of the Soviets & communism on the world?

In theory, yes. In the idealistic communist community, everyone in the community works their hardest and everybody gets just enough supplies to support themselves and their family. In the real world, however, this system would not work for many reasons. Firstly, the leader would take advantage of their position of power. Secondly, the civilians would take advantage of their positions. Therefore, the only way that communism would work in the real world is if the citizens were completely unselfish and there was no wrongdoing.

NATO : North Atlantic Treaty Organization .

Usually they slash because of their foundational ideas. Communists usually demand near complete control of land, businesses, etc, and capitalists like control by the citizens. For more information and a little chuckle, visit http://www.iamlost.com/features/smurfs/commies.shtml Joe R

The idea of NATO was that if the USSR attempted to invade any member of that alliance, the other members would come to the rescue of that invaded nation. There was particular concern about West Germany. As it turned out, no such invasion ever happened.

"Actually, the war was fought from 1960-1975.

The Americans joined the French in the war because they thought that it would keep Asia from becoming Communist."

Actually that's wrong, the war was fought fron 1965-to 1971.

They became involved due to the Domino theory, being that if Vietnam falls to communism, so will all the rest of the surronding Asian countries, so on and so forth. The Americans saw an ally in the french in the fight against communism, and supported them.

One of the sole purposes to the Truman, Kennedy, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower doctrines was to contain communist expansion in the world. Eisenhower's doctrine was in 1957 and wanted to block communism in the middle east.

it rose because of the glorious Soviet liberators it fell for all the satellite countries and independent communist countries fell with the Soviet union or counterrevolution

Supposedly communism is simply referring to how much regulation the economy should have, the problem is that most "communist" countries have histories of human rights abuses. The current platform of the Communist Party USA illustrates a "communist democracy" where people would enjoy the same civil rights they do now but would heavily regulate corporations but not a lot of people trust them because of the history that communism has in other countries. In a real sense, the answer of democratic socialism may come closer to a better economy. Communism seeks to create a classless society, this means the use of force, and the "leaders" retain their "class of leadership".

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It dramatically changed China in the past 100 years. Mao Tse Tung lead China into modernisation, removing all tyrants and landlords who were currently controlling the country in a bad way, as well as defeating their opposition party, the Guomindang lead by Chiang Kaishek, who's party was unfair and only focused on rich cities and companies and completely blocking out the peasants who at the time were 95% of the population, and were illiterate.

As far as other countries, Cuba has become communist, as well as Lao, and also North Korea.

The founding country of Communist, (firstly known as Comintern), was Russia, and disbanded Communist in the early 90s because of all the contraversy of military weaponary and war.

Nearly almost every country has a Communist party which you can become a member of.

Japan has a promising future for Communism, as already 5 million people in Japan have already voted for it as their countries one party state.

Western Bloc

Macedonia was nearly wrested from the rest of Greece by communists who had allied themselves with communist Yugoslavia, but the Greek army prevailed and the communists were expelled but not before they had stolen 28,000 Greek children from Macedonia, Thessaly, Epirus and Thrace and sent them to Slavic states to be 're-educated' to the communist ideology.

Truman Doctrine

it is deppending on who you are asking if you ask a capitalist or American they'd say to take over the world but ask a communist or socailist and they say to have equallality and peace for all mankind but it was abused

America's fear played a major role in the cold war.

see with our fear we tried to prevent what our fears would become,

such as we were afraid that a nuclear war was going to start, or the communists

would take over the world. so in turn we tried to prevent that by fighting the spread of communism even to the extent of the Vietnam war and making tensions very high

between us and the soviet union.

Yes. The government owns everything. The people do not have a right to anything. If they challenge this they can be arrested. The USA have tried to change this in recent years but to no avail.

The Red Scare of the 1950's left American people distrusting acquaintances. Fear of communism allowed for an acceptable perception of federal scrutiny.

Eisenhower subscribed , at least in part, to the domino theory, which asserted the Communists were a monolithic organization , dedicated to world domination and that if not checked, nation after nation would fall to communist revolutions until all the world was under Communist control.

Yes. It was a Monarchy for many years through its medieval history but is now a democracy and is part of the United Kingdoms. (If you want to know more about medieval Scotland read "Girl in a Cage" by Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris. I highly recommend it!)

The policy of the United States to provide aid to countries attempting to prevent a communist takeover was called the Truman Doctrine. Harry S. Truman was America's 33rd President.

Obviously he was an awesome guy who promised everything to be better than during the reign of the Czar, but the when he became the leader everything was the same