Computer Lab - Communism

Computer Lab - Communism
1. Communism is an economic and political system which gives a way of living together equally in term of income, class level and it shares the production equally among the population. Communism is based on mutual cooperation, peace and justice instead of oppression. It ends the power of people over people. However, it gives a lot of power to the government and usually this makes the government corrupt. It is a branch of socialism ideology that was originated as Marxism by Karl Marx.
2. Karl Marx is the main key communist thinker and he created Marxism. Other key thinkers were Vladimir Lenin and Mao Ze-Dong of China.
3. The Cold War was a period of a great East-West power contest and conflict that began at the end of world war two and ended by early 1990’s. It fell short of full-scale war, characterized by mutual perceptions of hostile intention between military-political alliances or blocs.
4. The Americans believe in freedom and democracy but they were afraid Communism might spread further and global conflict in atomic age could kill more people than it has already.
5. McCarthy was the most visible public face of the 1950s era of anti-communism. Joseph McCarthy's fame as an anti-Communist began with a speech he delivered in 1950, in which he said that there were many Communists in the U.S. State Department, and that the State Department knew they were there.
6. McCarthyism is referred to a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in America between late 1940s and late 1950s.
7. House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was an investigative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives.
8. Miller attending the hearing with Monroe, gave the committee a detailed account of his political activities. Miller refused to respond to committee’s request to reveal the names of his friends and colleagues who took part in similar activities, saying "I could not use the name of another person and bring trouble on him." As a result a judge found Miller guilty of contempt of Congress in May 1957 and Miller was fined $500, sentenced to thirty days in prison, blacklisted, and disallowed a U.S. passport. In 1958 his conviction was overturned by the court of appeals, which ruled that Miller had been misled by the chairman of HUAC.