History 2186A/B Lecture 6: Lecture 6
7 Apr 2018
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Lecture 6- communists and terrorists: from red scares to the war on terror: senator joseph mccarthy u. s. senator who wanted to rule out communists and communist sympathizers skillful manipulator of panic and paranoia. He understood how to foster, create it, and benefit from it. It is a classic example of panic and paranoia being used as a weapon: communists were charged with conspiring in the 20th and 21st century. The communist menace in our own backyard: during the first world war, russia was good because they fought on the side of the. Western islands aka britain, france, canada, and the u. s. , up until 1917: during the revolution, russia became bad, they concluded a separate piece with. In march 1946, fulton, missouri, winston churchill gave his famous iron curtain speech second red scare. It was limited to the fear that communists or bolsheviks were going to take over liberties.
