ESSAY ON AMERICAN HISTORY

American History

Essay

American History

February 9, 1950 an unknown before the senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy waved a piece of paper, said at a rally in Wheeling (West Virginia): "I am holding a list of 205 persons are known to the Secretary of State as members of the communistically party and which, however, continue to work and formulating vat State Department policy of "185. A similar statement, he made in other cities. The right-hand print and other media picked up these charges. The name of the senator soon it became the banner of political reaction and the personification of the most disgraceful- the first and darkest times in U.S. history and the notion of "McCarthyism" firmly entered the political vocabulary to describe the growing crises as bourgeois democracy in the U.S., methods of violent suppression working class and democratic movement (Buhle, 2003).

McCarthyism hysteria was the logical conclusion of the rotation Right, who carried the U.S. ruling circles in the early post-war years. The factors that determined the shift in the period of maximum charisma even more intensified. The process of revolutionary of the old orders in several countries of Europe and Asia, beginning immediately after the defeat the fascism, irreversible, and Strengthening the defense of eco- gnomic potential of the USSR, the formation and successful development of world- the new system of socialism, the growth of international workers' and communist electric movement, the collapse of the colonial system weakened capitalism narrowed the scope of his influence (Brown, 1958).

From internal factors, which stimulated McCarthyism, the most important role is still played the "new wealth". The influence of this factor in 50-ies became even stronger: the growth of large states led to the formation of formation of new centers of economic and financial power in the South and fused strany186. The emergence of new regional groupings monopole acoustic and monopolistic husking capital has sharpened the contradictions within the ruling class. In the United States by reason of the economic orpiment of the country, characterized by a relatively later industrialization of the South and West, the alliance of big business and government- Islands initially formed as a unit of financial-industrial circles north-eastern states, personified Wall Street and the government.

Young regional groupings of big business were in pre- cases the current structure of state monopoly mechanism of power and have made serious opposition on Wall Street. Starting with the 50-ies the contradictions between old ...