Long Essay Rewrite
Kate Heriza
With World War Two coming to a close America saw the growing threat of communism.
The atomic bombs that blasted both Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the end of World War 2 and the beginning of the Cold war. This war was between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Although the early Cold War marked a dramatic turning point in domestic life in regaurd to the way individuals reacted to communism and paranoia and spreading of democratic ideals, this was only due to only the even more significant and influential foreign policy that was embraced during this period in regaurd to containment and communism.
The Cold War’s foreign policies encouraged the growth of anti communist hysteria and the spread of democratic ideals which had a profound impact on domestic life in the United
States. Being prepared for nuclear war became a way of life. Air raid sirens were installed, bomb shelters were built, and duck and cover drills were practiced. The government started to build an interstate highway system in case of an evacuation. This helped spread people to family centered suburbs such as Levittown. America lived in constant fear that a bomb would be dropped due to people like McCarthy who exaggerated this communist threat. America had long feared differences in society such as the Salem Witch Trials portrayed in
The Crucible
. The government had attempted to remove these perceived threats from America. However, even stronger fear and paranoia was to get rid of communism in America. McCarthy captured and put on trial Ethel and
Julius Rosenberg for believing they were spies and revealing secrets. They were later executed heightening America’s fear and paranoia. House Committee on UnAmerican Activities targeted
Hollywood to determine if communist ideas were reflected in films. Labor Unions were stripped of their rights and with TaftHartley Act which required labor unions to confirm that none of their leaders belonged to the Communist
With World War Two coming to a close America saw the growing threat of communism.
The atomic bombs that blasted both Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the end of World War 2 and the beginning of the Cold war. This war was between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Although the early Cold War marked a dramatic turning point in domestic life in regaurd to the way individuals reacted to communism and paranoia and spreading of democratic ideals, this was only due to only the even more significant and influential foreign policy that was embraced during this period in regaurd to containment and communism.
The Cold War’s foreign policies encouraged the growth of anti communist hysteria and the spread of democratic ideals which had a profound impact on domestic life in the United
States. Being prepared for nuclear war became a way of life. Air raid sirens were installed, bomb shelters were built, and duck and cover drills were practiced. The government started to build an interstate highway system in case of an evacuation. This helped spread people to family centered suburbs such as Levittown. America lived in constant fear that a bomb would be dropped due to people like McCarthy who exaggerated this communist threat. America had long feared differences in society such as the Salem Witch Trials portrayed in
The Crucible
. The government had attempted to remove these perceived threats from America. However, even stronger fear and paranoia was to get rid of communism in America. McCarthy captured and put on trial Ethel and
Julius Rosenberg for believing they were spies and revealing secrets. They were later executed heightening America’s fear and paranoia. House Committee on UnAmerican Activities targeted
Hollywood to determine if communist ideas were reflected in films. Labor Unions were stripped of their rights and with TaftHartley Act which required labor unions to confirm that none of their leaders belonged to the Communist