Why the "Red Scare" was allowed to occur

The Red Scare would not have been as possible without the fear of the American public. Figures that the people trusted were putting fear directly and purposefully into citizens. One of the most important people to our country, Truman, had a huge role in putting the fear into the public. Truman, in an effort to show everyone how seriously he took communism, forced all government officials to undergo loyalty tests. If our own president can’t trust his own countries officials how could we trust our neighbors? We as Americans are so used to living in our safe little bubble that we will turn on each other on the drop of a hat if that safety is threatened.

U.S. entering the Korean War

With the Korea Peninsula now divided between a Soviet-backed government in the north and an American-backed government in the south tensions were quickly rising. It was only a matter of time before the ideologies of both countries were going to be put to the test. The United States was afraid that the Soviet backed North would soon try to invade the entire peninsula, and they were right. Their ideologies involved aggressive military action for control, while ours involved necessary action for protection, so obviously there was bound to be conflict. The United States policy of Containment states that the US will help any country that is being threatened with communism. North Korean troops coordinated attacks on sever places along the parallel and began a movement toward Seoul, this is the reason the United states entered the conflict.

Agriculture industry in the Soviet Union & in the United States

When Stalin came into power he basically wanted to get rid of any traces of capitalism in the Soviet Union, to essentially give the government all the power. Under his New Economic Policy he tried to cause rapid industrialization which had the main impact on individual owned farms. He wanted to transform the nation from mostly individual farms into state-collective farms, which ultimately backfired. Workers weren’t being paid for how hard they worked or their effort necessarily, so they began to stop working as hard because their salaries no longer depended on it. This led to extreme inefficiency.

The U.S. on the other hand is a capitalism economy, meaning we have a lot more private owned farms. We have a free enterprise system which allows small business and farm owners to compete for profit with minimal government regulation. The amount a farm make a year is directly related to the amount of work put in, crops produced, of livestock raised, which is why we are so efficient. The profits are solely made and managed by the farm owners, not the government, which is an example of our free enterprise system.