Red Scare Probs

How did the differences in ideologies and the fear of rising communism lead to the Red Scare? Well, the United States is not known for being scared of what others are going to do to them. The United States has always been known for being the ones to scare others. We also have always been against communistic countries for as long as we have existed. But I believe that our government had a big part in forcing fear into the American people. Our president for one, made people in the government take loyalty tests to see if they were loyal to the U.S and not to the communists. If they didn’t take these tests, they would be prosecuted and put in jail. How can you be comfortable and not scared, if your government officials cannot trust other officials? This truly freaked out the American people. This did nothing to raise moral of people in the U.S, and did nothing to help find a solution to the end of a war.

Korean War Probs

How did the United States get involved in the Korean War, or sometimes called the forgotten war? It all starts with the difference of ideologies between the United States and all the other communistic countries. The Unites States is not quite as pushy when it comes to war, but we still try to be the world’s police, whereas the Soviet Union is more pushing towards war, and more aggressive. Now Korea was split into two countries, North and South Korea. North Korea was communistic just like the Soviet Union, and South Korea was more like the United States. Now the whole world had an idea that North Korea had a plan to take over South Korea, and they were right. The United States’ policy that says that they will help out any nation that has communism being forced upon them, and or if they can’t help themselves. So naturally, being the “world police” the U.S just had to step in and take part in the Korean War.

US vs Soviet Russia

The United States and the Soviet Union can be very different in ways of their agriculture and the way they practice their methods of agriculture. For instance, the United States has a capitalistic economy; whereas the Soviet Union has a communist economy. In the United States, the government has to regulate people just to make sure that things don’t get out of control, but the people basically get to make their own decisions and get to keep the profit that they worked for that year.

Now in the Soviet Union, the government owns everything. In simpler terms, that means that if you have a single dairy cow, and you take care of this cow and milk the cow every day for a year, the only thing that you basically get out it is that you feel good that you took such good care of that cow, because the government is taking every last drop of milk that you had received from that cow. But as you could imagine, people weren’t very happy with this method, so the Soviet Union’s production rates dropped instead of rising like they hoped it would. But production in America rose extremely, mainly because people were happy with how the government was running things.

So what I’m trying to say is that if you want your production rates to rise and overall citizen moral to stay high, give them something to work for. Don’t just make them work hard their entire lives, and only receive a small amount of money to live off of. Give a man who’s worked hard his whole life something to be proud about!