History 2186A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Conspiracy Theory, Innocent Victims, Hollywood Blacklist
16 Jan 2017
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The enemy among us: communists and terrorists: the communist menace in out own backyard, the war on terror. Senator joseph mccarthy house un-american activities committee (huac) Huac 1938 created to try to uncover pro nazi groups in the us. Classic example of panic/paranoia being used as a political and social weapon. Today, charges against communists and terrorists (presumptuous: the communist menace in our own backyard. Beginning of the first world war, russia was good (ally), they were on our side. But in 1917, russia was taken out of the war, and it became (cid:862)(cid:271)ad(cid:863) Hitler and stalin (1939) non-aggression pact didn(cid:859)t actually pledge to fight with ger(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455), (cid:271)ut pledged (cid:374)ot to fight agai(cid:374)st ger(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) (cid:894)(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:862)(cid:448)er(cid:455) (cid:271)ad(cid:863)(cid:895) 1941 germany invades russia (instantly become good again allies with the west) When the war was over, 1945 time for world order to be reestablished. Scene was set for russia to become bad again.
