This week of American history has been emphasizing the Cold war and its importance. The Cold war is not exactly the traditional idea of warfare, it focused around ideas like the policy of containment and such. Two countries trying to rise to the top of the chain. One side is the U.S. currently at the top because of how WWII turned out, On the other side is the USSR with communism as it's weapon. What I want to touch up on is how sad it is to see the U.S. attempting at creating hate for Communism.
During the Cold war, the U.S. was ridden with anti communist hysteria. The majority was against communism, and to me it felt like the HUAC and the government was using this as a justification for some really ugly stuff. There were many programs that went to such length simply because the government had the excuse to always say it was for the fight against communism. Creating files on thousands of American (many of whom who were not related to communism)? That's fine, as long as it's for the fight against communism. Sentencing a couple to death simply because they were communist? That's fine as long as it's fpr the fight against communism. I am exaggerating a bit here, but I do feel like this was something that was happening. This was called a "red scare" after all. The U.S. was scared to some extent. Communism was a formidable opponent for many reasons, but one of the most prominent ones was the domino effect. As communism was spread to one country, then another country would soon also become communist until many other countries had become communist in Europe. Thus spreading the "iron curtain" around Europe.
