Communism_In_America

Communism In America During the depression, thousands of American citizens joined the communist party for economic answers. By the end of World War II, most had withdrawn, though some were still communist party members. The cold war had affected the United States because the fear of communist conspiracy took over the nation and many citizens didn’t want to go back to war. During the terms of both Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, concern over the growing appeal of communism around the world led to civil rights violations at home. The fear of conspiracy to overthrow the government led to an attack that persecuted the people who had ties to the communist party and people who had left sided views. Truman launched a loyalty program that had the FBI check all government officials to make sure they had no ties to the communist party or anything else that seemed suspicious (D1). His main reason for doing this was to keep communism out of the government. Congress also launched a new program called the House of Un-American Activities Committee. This committee was supposed to prevent and stop communist acts and acts against Americans. But this committee thought it war, people, cold, government, communist, world, united, states, communism, citizens, american, party, fear, communists, committee, americans, ties, over, launched, ii, going, feared, charged, because, back, two, truman, threat, thought, though, started, spending, satellite, program, out