DBQ Essay On Communism

From 1945 to1975 many nations around the world were afraid of the belief called communism that eventually led to a Cold War. Many people were afraid that it would spread like a disease all around the world and affect everyone to the comfort of their homes. Communism limits the freedom and gives little or no democracy to the people it rules or governs. The two powerful nations the United States non-communist and the Soviet Union (USSR) communist and get themselves into a feud between each other and drag other nations along in the fight. This communism belief threatened many people at this time and the effort to stop communism from spreading or do exactly that, had taken its tole on the people of the U.S and the people around the world.

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worldwide were extremely concerned whether they would be a communist nation or not so much so that the nations had separated themselves from their enemies in every way possible. For example, there was a group of nations that called themselves NATO which stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and communist nations would call themselves the Warsaw Pact this brings countries’ armies together against the opposing side. NATO was the group of people that weren’t agreeing with the communist talk and wanted to prevent other nations from communism and the Warsaw Pact were nations that were communist that wanted other non-comm nations to join. The people of America believe that NATO was necessary to help prevent communism from spreading to other nations in Europe (doc 3) such as Turkey and Greece which were non-comm at the time. The Soviet Union and the U.S were controlling different sections of Berlin at the time. The USSR had West Berlin and the U.S had the East. The Soviets decided to build a wall between the territories and prevent all trade between them a blockade that was called the Berlin Wall. This had starved the people of West Berlin because no food or other necessary supplies were coming in because of the Wall and in response to the Wall, the U.S had flown food and other supplies to the people to help (doc.2). The two parts of Berlin were separated just because of the difference of beliefs and the people they governed had to suffer the consequences.
In the U.S the citizens were spastic about the possible believers of communism in their home land.

For example, Senator McCarthy had adopted a conspiracy that had accused government officials of involvement in communism practices and accused of corrupting the system. The outright accusation of persons who might be a communist without any evidence or proof of it was called McCarthyism (doc 5). This wave of action was sparked from what was called the second Red Scare the reds were Soviet comms, and hence the name, people had been scared of communists attacking or taking over the government and nation. Americans were so afraid of communism spreading and taken over, that they had accused their own beloved Hollywood stars of being involved in the belief and put them on trial which was called the Hollywood Ten. They had done the same to many other citizens as well. Another occurrence that made the people of America hold their breaths on a daily basis was called the Cuban Missile Crisis. At this time the USSR had planted missiles in Cuba and this is because the two were allied and both are communist nations that hate the U.S, and the Soviets had wanted to stir up the Americas and threaten them enough to make them do something about it, so they could gain without a full out war. The Soviets and the U.S had eventually came to an agreement to remove the missile in Cuba but only if the U.S would remove the missiles they had planted in Turkey. But at home people had taking precautions

in cases of a missile attack or atomic bomb explosion such as making their schools do drills in case and it went like this, the teachers would line the students up against walls or hid under benches to keep themselves safer than being bare during an explosion (doc 8). Another precaution that Americans took to have a better chance for survival would be the Interstate Highway System. This was established because the President Eisenhower had thought it was a good idea to build the highway in the levy towns because it would lead to a smooth evacuation in a situation in time of an attack without having clusters of people trying to get away from site. These precautionary measures were taken because the Soviets has been stocking up on such ammo like crazy. This threatened the United States and had done the same for the same effect (doc 6), but no nation ever actually launched or ignited any missile or atom bomb, so the whole episode had a successful ending but wasted billions of dollars.
During the years of the Cold War nations abroad had been effected with others’ understanding of how a nation should be governed. And that belief had set an uneasiness in their home nation wide. The U.S had been unwilling to let themselves be taken over to the darkside along with the others. While other countries had embraced it and still practice the belief of communism today, such as Cuba being one of the few. But communism had a huge impact on everyone and effected the world to how it is today.