ANTICOMMUNISM AND MCCARTHYISM

Anticommunism and McCarthyism

Anticommunism and McCarthyism

Introduction

The changing political landscapes of the world during the rise of communism took a particular focus in the print media. To combat the communism and the related destructive imperialistic ideologies, the then U.S. president had appointed an advisory committee to suggest the foreign policy frameworks in forms of McCarthyism and Anti-Communism. This paper addresses the differences between anticommunism and McCarthyism perspectives as they were reported in the news media. American foreign policy decisions impacted by anticommunism and changes in American political perspectives from the communist Red Scare are also addressed.

Discussion and Analyis

McCarthyism

McCarthyism is a term used to describe the performance of the accusations of disloyalty, subversion or treason without due respect for the proof or evidence. American domestic political attitude consisting of an anti-all that takes shape in a real persecution of anti-American people and institutions declared to be "communists," confusing in many cases, liberal communists or simply progressive. It originates from an episode in the history of the United States that developed between 1950 and 1956.

McCarthyism is known as a domestic policy approach consisting of an anti-American all that is specified in a real persecution of anti-American people and institutions declared to be "communists," confusing in many cases, liberal communists or simply progressive. Trials, evidence and testimony in many cases distorted, ruined the career of a great number of innocent Americans. Historically McCarthyism is the culmination of the Cold War in the internal politics of the United States.

Anti-Communism 

Anti-communism is a set of ideas, ideologies and political doctrines, against Communist ideologies, political movements and appropriate methods of government. Although the term communism has a long history, the modern anti-communism directed primarily against the policy of the followers of Marxism-Leninism. At the VII Party Congress (B) in1918 the party was renamed the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), to contrast his followers to the Mensheviks.

One of the logos, the anti-communists

Anti-communism had been a potent force in US politics, especially in Republican circles, long before Senator Joseph McCarthy burst onto the scene in 1950. Fears of communism were, however, intensified by the onset of the Cold War. In this context the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), furnished with plentiful information by Federal Bureau of Investigation chief, J. Edgar Hoover widened its investigative trawl to include the entertainment industry in 1947. Thereafter, from 1950-54, McCarthy's relentless pursuit of communist 'subversives' took the witch-hunt to new heights. Against the backdrop of the Berlin blockade, Korean War and Soviet consolidation in Eastern Europe, and enjoying the enthusiastic support ...