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Private industry
Less help for those in need - very big division between rich and poor
People make their own money
Democracy
Uneven society
Free speech/ free media |
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Only one party to vote for
Public Industry
Sharing resources fairly
Everyone works for the state
Theoretically all equal
Censorship
Lower average standard of living |
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1917 - USSR became communist
1945 - By this time two rival superpowers have emerged, USA and USSR
1948 - Most of Eastern Europe is communist and under USSR control
1949 - Largest country in the world, China becomes communist
1950 - Communist North Korea, backed by USSR invades South Korea, backed by USA |
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| FBI and Federal Employee Loyalty Program |
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Head of FBI: J Edgar Hoover - well known anticommunist
F.E.L.P. Set up in 1947 by Hoover, investigate 3,000,000 government employees for links with communists
In three years, no one charged BUT 212 people lost their jobs for being 'security risks' |
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| House UnAmerican Activities Committee |
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| HUAAC started in 1930s but unnoticed until 1947, when the 'Hollywood 10' were questioned and unfairly jailed of a year for refusing to answer questions about links with communism. 1st amendment states citizens have a right to believe what they like. |
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| Whittaker Chambers put in front of HUAAC in 1948 and accused Alger Hiss of being in he same communist group. Hiss claimed Chambers was lying and HUAAC dropped the case but Richard Nixon, young member of HUAAC discovered debatable evidence of Hiss being involved with sending the USSR information and concrete evidence Hiss and Chambers had known each other so Hiss spent 5 years in prison in 1950 for purjory. |
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| USSR developed atom bomb in 1949, four years earlier than expected. Conviction of Klaus Fuchs (1950) led to investigation of Ethel and Julius Rosenburg who were sentenced to death (1951)and executed (1953) despite evidence of them sending information being flimsy. Now known they were guilty, sending telegrams starting 1944. |
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1950, Internal Security Act (McCarren Act) pushed through congress by Senator Pat McCarren despite President Truman's opposition to it.
-Registration and fingerprinting of members of the communist party
-Communists banned from carrying US passports or working in defense industry
- Made legal setting up of concentration camps in emergency situations |
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