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1) Follow this link to the video link
2) Click on the video link and watch the video. I would suggest reading the essay questions before you watch so you know what to pay attention to; I would also suggest taking notes as you watch. Then watch the video again to catch things you might have missed. You may use the section in the book on the Cold War for more background material if you like, but it’s not necessary.
3) the paper must be between 500-1000 words in order for you to receive credit for the assignment.
Essay Question:
Although the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were officially allies by the end of World War II, relations between the countries quickly soured once the war ended. As early as the Potsdam conference in the summer of 1945, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin told U.S. President Harry Truman that each man was profoundly misunderstood in the other’s country, and that sense of misunderstanding quickly blossomed into mutual suspicion and conviction that each country sought the other’s destruction. Tensions quickly escalated over the shape and structure of postwar Europe, as the United States complained that the Soviet Army interfered in the governance of Eastern European countries and the Soviet Union worried that the United States would use its monopoly over nuclear weaponry to attack the Soviet Union. The ensuing “Cold War” led to a tide of anti-Soviet and anti-Communist fervor in the United States. Joseph McCarthy, a little known senator from Wisconsin, built a powerful public platform between 1950 and 1954 on those anti-Communist fears, arguing that Communists had infiltrated all levels of American society, including especially the government.
McCarthy rose to great prominence and was, for a time, hailed as a hero by many for his unapologetic assault on the forces of Communism in America.
Think about the conditions in American society that allowed his vitriolic and frequently slanderous accusations to achieve such widespread renown. Consider the changes in international affairs from the end of World War II to the early 1950s, as well as the nature of the ideological conflict between capitalism and communism. Think about the relationship between popular anxieties, paranoia, patriotism, and national pride.
Write an essay that explains the causes of the Red Scare of the 1950s, typified by the career of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Your essay should describe the changes in America’s relationship to the Soviet Union in the five years after the end of World War II, including specific military conflicts as well as ideological differences. You should also discuss the nature of McCarthy’s accusations and arguments about the Communist threat. What made McCarthyism so compelling and convincing to so many Americans?
View the video “McCarthyism and the Politics of Fear” by Edward T. O?Donnell and write an essay in response to the prompt.
THE text book: Tindall and Shi, America: A Narrative History, Concise 8th Edition, Vol. II
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