Cold_War

Cold War How did the Cold War with the Soviet Union affect U.S. domestic politics and society in the late 1940s and the 1950s' In your view, who or what was most responsible for this “Second Red Scare,” and what were its most significant consequences' (Use lectures, textbook, and the Reader selections on McCarthyism.) Several factors in society and changes in domestic policies affected relations with the U.S. and Soviet Union. After WWII, the U.S. and USSR emerged as the top two most powerful countries in the world. The Soviets suffered major losses in agricultural, industrial and human losses. But both countries knew exactly what they wanted and did all they could to get it, which brought conflicts amongst the two countries thus leading to the Cold War. Effects on Society: On May Day 1950 at Mosinee, Wisconsin, American Legionnaires dressed up as Soviet soldiers and staged a mock communist takeover of the town. The arrested and locked up the mayor, clergymen, nationalized all businesses, confiscated all firearms, and rid the library of rows of objectionable books. They also forced the residents to change eating habits as restaurants served only potato soup, dark bread, and black coffee, cold, war, soviets, communist, after, war, soviet, red, countries, scare, plan, marshall, government, west, union, two, society, second, residents, public, policy, over, out, domestic, communists, berlin, airlift, 1950, young, world, within, western, takeover, successful, stated, state