Introduction: In the "war" on Communism and UnAmericanism, like all ideological wars, rhetoric played aprincipal part in the various fronts of the First and SecondRed Scare in the first half of the 20th century.
Bolshevik Revolution andPropaganda for both sides
Conclusion: something vaguely politicalabout the war on terror andMcCarthyism
Nationalism after the war
Dies Committee and Soviet Spies
McCarthyism
Brief history of WWII
Communist Parties
Two formed in 1900seventually merged
Communist Party of USA
Communist Workers Party of USA
Support for Spanish Civil War
As Anti-Fascism againstFrancisco Franco
Really in support of Communistsatellite state
Gained members withAnti-Fascism platform
Lost members with Palmer Raids
Lost more members withNazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Joe McCarthy
Jumped on theAnti-Communism Bandwagonfor Political Fame
The real Communists werealready gone
Had major media support
Relied on it
When he lost media attentionhe went downhill
Died in 1957 of alcohol related illness
Senate censured him in 1956
Used Korean War to support himself
"the boys dying" because of N.Korean Communism
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Also 1949 Mao Zedong CCP
Previously a divorce judge
character assasinator
Anybody who was against himhe called a Communist
Ordered investigation of the CIA
J Edgar Hoover of the FBI helpedhim root out Communism andhomosexuals
World War II
Soviet-Nazi Nonagression Pact
Kills support of Communist Party
Allied powers of USSR and US
Many spies infiltrate government
Lend-Lease to Russia
FDR "Soft on Communism"
Dies Committee
Politically against the New Deal
Investigated the FederalTheater Project
Martin Dies Jr and Samuel Dickstein
The Great Depression
Federal One Programs
Apparently full of Communists
Accused of leftist slant in its plays
Writer's Guidbooks also
Works Progress Administrationwas a New Deal Program
made it illegal to interferewith the success of the US atWWI
1918 Sedition Act
made disloyalty to the U.S a crime.
repealed in 1920
Palmer Raids
Attorney General Mitchell Palmer
under authority of Sedition Act
FBI under J. Edgar Hoovercollected names legally andillegally for Palmer
over 6000 arrested
IWW wobblies mostly taken out
Communist Party USAmembership reduced 80% dueto fear
Palmer predicted May 20th1920 uprising that didn'thappen
shot his credibility
"An assassin may have brilliant intellectuality, he maybe able to excuse his murder or robbery with fineoratory, but any theory which excuses crime is notwanted in America." --source linked
Bolshevik Revolution
America SupportedProvisional Government
Soviets won in October1917
"Ten Days that shook theworld" John Reed
Lincoln Steffens "I haveseen the future and itworks"