...Anticommunism and McCarthyism Hist/145 November 30, 2011 Janice Harder This paper will require me to define and use quotations to defend my position to answer the questions of the difference between McCarthyism and anti-communism, the perspective of the press, the decisions of the foreign policy, and the lives of Americans. I would attempt to integrate the questions of McCarthyism, anti-communism, and the perspective of the press in the first part of the paper, because they are related. The differences are that McCarthyism was a radical expression of anti-communism, because anti-communism was a political belief that was against any social, cultural, political, and foreign policy that supported a government controlled state, economy, and cultural life. McCarthyism sought to fight communism by rooting out disloyal government officials through hearings, investigations, and wire tapping them to find out if they had allegiance to the communist party. McCarthy came out in the 1950's with a list of 205 spies that changed every day, but he began to target spies that no longer worked for the government(Goldfield D, 2006). They are closely related, but McCarthyism accused too many innocent people such as teachers, the army, and was finally censured by the Senate for interfering with the rights of the citizens which the article on the censorship and the symbol of McCarthyism spoke on. The press manipulated the perspectives of the nation by either promoting McCarthyism when...
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...Do economic or security interests play a greater role in shaping the foreign policy of the United States? Has this changed since the end of the Cold War? Attempting to separate economic and security interests in terms of American foreign policy is no easy feat as both play, and have always played, a major role in the decisions made by the government at different times over recent years. Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, security interests appear to be of the utmost importance, but prior to that, since the end of the Cold War, economic interests seemed to be the priority. Over the past seventy five years or so, the interests of the United States has fluctuated between security and economy, but all of this has relied upon the world situation at the time. For example, during the Cold War, the U.S. had the worry that they would be the target of missile attacks, making security the number one priority; as is to be expected. However, prior to this, during the depression, the economy was clearly the number one concern. In an attempt to distinguish between the two, the following essay will cover a number of separate occasions where the interests of the United States have swayed between their economy and national security, and how foreign policy was affected by this; those cases being the Great Depression, the Cold War, America’s support for Israel, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the very recent Global Financial Crisis, or GFC. With this evidence a conclusion will be made which...
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...From 1945-1991, United Sates foreign relations were chiefly guided by containment and its philosophy. Where as strategic action would be taken to stop the spread of communism. Devised by George Keenan and adopted by Harry Truman, containment was created during the Cold War to stop the spread of Soviet influence, and communist rule. Examples of this doctrine are the war in Vietnam, Korea, Iran, and other countries where democracy seeking countries were looking for U.S support over communist governments. Although containment was heavily influenced within the U.S foreign relations principles, there are a few examples where U.S policy was not guided by Cold War thinking. The first example comes from negotiations between the U.S and Russia, called...
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...from spreading. But how would we do it? That’s when George Kennan, a US foreign service agent suggested the policy of containment. What was containment and what did it look like in action? Containment was what we were going to use to stop the flow of communism. The Berlin Airlift, Korean War, and Cuban Missile Crisis are what I will be using to define containment and what it does. Let’s start with the Berlin Airlift, that is one example of containment. From June 1948 to May 1949 Joseph Stalin blockaded all of the routes and tunnels on land that let people in and out of West Berlin. Even with the blockade the US, England, and France found a way to break the blockade by using an airlift to send supplies into West Berlin for almost a year. They ended up sending in 270,000 planeloads of item the were anything from food to coal. The airlift was a pretty good example of containment. It kept Western Berlin free from communism and and also prevented communism and the Soviet power from expanding....
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...Daiichi Incident 1. Plant Design " Fukushima Daiichi (Plant I) Unit I - GE Mark I BWR (439 MW), Operating since 1971 Unit II-IV - GE Mark I BWR (760 MW), Operating since 1974 The Fukushima Daiichi Incident – March 21, 2011 The Fukushima Daiichi Incident " Building structure Concrete Building Steel-framed Service Floor 1. Plant Design " Containment Pear-shaped Dry-Well en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browns_Ferry_Nuclear_Power_Plant Torus-shaped Wet-Well nucleartourist.com The Fukushima Daiichi Incident – March 21, 2011 The Fukushima Daiichi Incident 1. Plant Design " Service Floor The Fukushima Daiichi Incident – March 21, 2011 The Fukushima Daiichi Incident 1. Plant Design " Lifting the Containment closure head The Fukushima Daiichi Incident – March 21, 2011 The Fukushima Daiichi Incident 1. Plant Design " Reactor Service Floor (Steel Construction) " Concrete Reactor Building (secondary Containment) Spend Fuel Pool Fresh Steam line Main Feedwater " Reactor Core " Reactor Pressure Vessel " Containment (Dry well) " Containment (Wet Well) / Condensation Chamber The Fukushima Daiichi Incident – March 21, 2011 The Fukushima Daiichi Incident 2. Accident progression " 11.3.2011 14:46 - Earthquake Magnitude 9 Power grid in northern Japan fails Reactors itself are mainly undamaged " SCRAM Power generation due to Fission of Uranium stops Heat generation due to...
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...Union and the United States ended in the World War ll. The Soviet Union claimed capitalism and communism would take over the political parties throughout the nation. World War ll ended but the issue with Antagonism came up again between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Soviet Union was an aggressive government who was part of Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania. President Truman was trying to share with the Soviet Union his conception of democracy, equality, and liberty. President Truman was also concerned about the United States markets, atomic weapons, and raw materials. The Soviet Union refused to back down from Iran and the United States "Containment” policy. With the distrust and suspicion between the Soviet Union and the United States the cold war begun....
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...The cold war was an era of great tension between the United States and Russia spanning from 1947 to 1991 which caused many changes in our nation’s foreign policy and views of communism on the Homefront. Some of our nation’s most significant changes in foreign policy that shifted towards containment of communism include the creation of the Truman Doctrine, implication of the Marshal plan, creation of the NATO group, and the use of the CIA in espionage and ensuring the safety of the United States. Furthermore, the citizens of the United States had to cope with major societal changes including the fear of nuclear warfare and the civil rights movement. Ultimately, these changes in government policy and society helped mold the nation into a...
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...The Cold War was a political and military tension in result of World War II between the two superpowers of the United States and Russia. During this time, a famous American writer, reporter, and political commentator, by the name of Walter Lippmann, was one of the first to introduce the issues and events of the Cold War. One of his famous essays toward the Cold War issues was the Critique of Containment which was written in 1947. It focused more on foreign policy and protection of the United States. The audience that the essay was supposed to be portrayed to was the American government or specifically to the department of defense. To enforce the security of the nation, Lippmann gave his ideas to shift geographical and political pressures by...
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...The Misconceptions of the U.S. Containment Foreign Policy The United States was a phenomenal success at containing communism after 1945 as long as one considers not falling into communism itself. The United States may have dodged the mighty communist virus but that doesn’t mean they succeeded in stopping it from infecting other areas of the world. The U.S. failed to stop the expansion of communism to any efficiency. Not only did all of Eastern Europe fall to communism, but the most populous nation on Earth, China, also fell to communism as well (Indirectly taking with it north Korea and Vietnam). The United States didn’t fully eliminate communism either. The U.S. gained a communist satellite 90 miles out of its boundaries, Cuba. It is clear that American foreign policy lacked to tackle its target of containment. One big step in the U.S. containment foreign policies’ failure was the promoting of N.A.T.O. This contributed to the communist expansion in 1949. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, as it stood for, was comprised of the major W. European powers and the United States. Although this organization’s intentions were good, it backfired. Instead of preventing communist expansion, the organization forced a paranoid Soviet Union to flex its muscles. In 1955, to counter the N.A.T.O. buildup, the U.S.S.R. created The Warsaw Pact. The U.S.S.R. formed an equal alliance with Eastern European nations. The Warsaw Pact shrouded virtually all of Eastern Europe in the Iron Curtain...
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...Legislation on Cost Containment Eugenia T. Tubbs Dr. Nick Coppola To: Wayne Johnson, State House Rep and Shadrack McGill, State Senate Rep From: Eugenia Tubbs, Walden University Student Date: May 11, 2014 Subject: Legislation on Cost Containment How can the federal government lessen the disagreements among politicians regarding how Medicare should be governed, protect it, and come up with a feasible solution for cost containment? Here in Alabama, there has been close to 98,000 people sign up for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (arisecitizens.org). This shows that there is a need for healthcare coverage within this state. However, with this increase in people inundating the system, there could be a possible rise in cost. Specifically, there could be a rise in Medicare. This program was signed into law on July 30, 1965 (SSA.gov). It is designed to take care of the elderly at 65 years and older, certain individuals who are disabled, and people who have kidney disease (CMS.gov). Even though this program is not income specific, it does help more low income people and individuals who have bad health issues and it is also a target for political battles (Tietelbaum & Wilensky, 2014).There are Republicans who are opposed to Obamacare and want to run Medicare their way. Then there are Democrats who want the program ran another way. They are in favor of Obamacare and see a positive outcome now and in the future. As for the public, the divide among politicians is equally the...
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...How successful was the USA’s policy of containment? The policy of containment was not a success, As after the war, The USA aimed to quarantine communism to the only place it existed, Russia. However soon despite this, communism spread and communist dictatorship controlled most of Eastern Europe, soon after this the most populated state on earth, China, fell to a communist regime, as well as the creation of communist states in Vietnam and Korea. This consistent creation of communist states and the failure of the USA to prevent this, shows how ultimately, despite apparent success in some of Europe and Asia, the Policy of Containment failed in its primary function, to contain and prevent the spread of communism and therefore it was not a success. However it is arguable that in some ways the USA’s Policy of Containment was a great success in preventing the spread of communism early on during the Cold War. One piece of evidence that supports the argument that the USA had early success with their policy of containment is The Greek Civil War. The USA’s decision to intervene due to the “strategic significance of Greece in the Balkans and the Mediterranean” arguably was successful. With this clear threat of communist expansion into Western Europe, Truman called for congress to uphold the Truman Doctrine and provide funding to aid the battle against the spread of communism that clearly threatened the USA’s interests in Europe. This resulted in $400 million dollars of funding being...
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...children were tubercular” (Truman). Europe was in bad shape during the Cold War. Ayers, et al. defines the Cold War as an era of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union conflicting mainly communism( Ayers, et al. 8--) President Truman led the United States during the beginning of the Cold War. President Eisenhower took office after Truman which left President Kennedy as the last president to lead during the Cold War. These leaders created many policies and uses of aid during their time in office to stop the spread of communism. While all of the U.S. Cold War Presidents dealt with the containment of communism, Truman emphasized giving economic aid, Eisenhower emphasized more military use, and Kennedy emphasized the idea of Flexible Response. All three presidents main goal was the containment of communism. American Anthem Reconstruction to the President says the containment policy was implemented to stop the spreading of communism. This policy was created by George F. Kennan in the late...
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...You are presented with a 52-year-old female patient. She is experiencing acute discomfort from gall stone symptoms for the fourth time in 8 years. The condition has responded to nonsurgical treatment in the past, but each subsequent time is a slower and more painful recovery. She is underinsured, and the cost of a surgery would be beyond her means without some sort of write-off or assistance. However, her family makes too much to qualify for Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS). Examine this case, using each of the following principles in turn as a possible guide to your actions: 1. The principle of utility: Bring about the greatest good with the least harm. The principle of utility is determined by the rightness of the act on someone’s happiness. Therefore, after examining the case and using the principle of utility, I would make sure that the action I perform should in turn make the patient happy. Furthermore, if the female patient wanted me to perform surgery to fix her gall stone condition, I would try to come up with the best possible solution to get her the surgery she wants. The surgery would improve the well being of the patient and she will be more comfortable after the surgery is over knowing that she will no longer have to deal with her gall stones. 2. The principle of equality: Everything is distributed equally. `The principle of equality means that everyone gets treated equally, and no one person should be favored. Thus if I were dealing...
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...how I personally and carefully will examine a patient’s case that is suffering from gall stone pain. I will examine her case by analyzing six chief principles that include; the principle of utility, equality, need, contribution, effort, and autonomy. To begin with, this patient is fifty-two years old and has been dealing with gall stone issues for eight years. It is her fourth visit to the hospital because she is suffering acute discomfort. Fortunately, she has been treated with medicine in the past and has not had to undergone surgery. Unfortunately, each time she is treated the process takes longer and the pain is intensified. Due to the fact that her family makes sufficient money, she is not eligible for Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS). For the reason being that she is underinsured, if she partook in surgery it would be extremely expensive without obtaining any type of write-off or assistance. Now that we comprehend her case, it is time to determine how one can decide which treatment option is best. In more detail, it is essential to comprehend the principle of utility. This principle focuses on conveying the maximum good with the least harm. In this instance, the best solution for the patient would be to not undertake surgery. Yes, recovering from the acute discomfort she is feeling may be a longer process but eventually she will fully recover. And when she does, she will not be in debt and avoid any stress or worry to pay it off. It is also vital...
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...Department. His expertise offered insight into the well-known foreign policy of containment. Kennan, through his policy of containment, sought to uphold American national interests amidst the growing threat of the USSR and an ignorant American public. In "The Sources of Soviet Conduct", George Kennan aimed to...
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