Whilst tension and conflict were growing at home with McCarthyism and the never ending Red Scare of Communism – a Civil War was breaking out in Vietnam, Southeast Asia. The Domino Theory was taking its effect and spreading like a wildfire from Russia to China and…
The Red Scare that led to the fear of communism which permeated American politics
America is a nation built on freedom and founded on liberty. Its fore-fathers broke away from the yoke of British imperial oppression for this very purpose. However, at many points in its auspicious history, these founding ideals have been grievously rejected and degraded, whether it be in the late emancipation of the slaves …