Limiting American Opportunity

Events such as the Korean War, the Berlin Blockade, the Rosenberg Trials, and McCarthy´s all increased the Red Scare, therefore limiting American Opportunity through fear. The first event to increase the Red Scare, and limit American Opportunity was the Korean War. The Korean War started June 25th 1950, when north Korean soldiers invaded the south Korean territory, it was a civil war in Korea, that had started because the nation could not decide whether to be a communist country or not. dividing the nation in two, ¨American forces held the southern half of the country below the 38th parallel while Soviet forces occupied the northern half¨ (Jigsaw). The Korean War showed Americans that the Soviets were willing to go to war to be able to spread communism, increasing fear that they might
The blockade spread fear through the American populace that the Soviets would be willing to use any tactic they found necessary for victory even if that meant forcing innocent people to starve. Another event that increased the Red Scare was the Rosenberg Trials. After World War II, on 5th september 1945, the U.S. gained knowledge of Soviet spies that were in america, one of these spies Julius Rosenberg was arrested but had refused to give the names of any other Soviet spies that he had known of. Rosenberg was put on trial, and found guilty of espionage by the jury, and sentenced to death (Jigsaw). The knowledge that there were Soviet spies in America increased the fear that information about the U.S. would be spread to the Soviets giving away important information of U.S. strategy and plans, leading people to believe and fear that the soviets could use American technology against them, making for devastating