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…the Department of State was full of communists, and he knew their names. His anti-communist crusade struck hard at the film industry and literature. Although senator McCarthy was never able to convict any communists, he influenced books and movies greatly as many…

…party, but only fourteen achieved their goal, including Gorbachev. He had a passion for the Communist Party, and he would not let his family get in the way of his work in the Communist party. For example, Gorbachev saw that some of his friends parents…

…. O’Flaherty decided to join the Communist Party. He not only joined the party but also returned to Ireland to become one of the founders of the Communist Party of Ireland. O’Flaherty’s Communist group was able to seize the Rotunda but was later forced…

…The Vietnam War In 1954, America indirectly gave aid to French forces in Indochina and limited involvement with the Diem regime. Diem began to face growing internal opposition from communists to the north, and the U.S. found itself drawn deeper…

…. She had everything that the family could offer, until the Khmer Rouge drove her family out of their home. Khmer Rouge was the Cambodian Communists led by Pol Pot, who had been fighting against the weak and unpopular government of Lon Nol. With the help…

…Character information Old Major Old Major is the wise old pig whose stirring speech to the animals helps set the Rebellion in motion- though he dies before it actually begins. His role compares with that of Karl Marx, whose ideas set the Communist…

…Some might say that Nicaragua has been merely a pawn in the US battle against Soviet-Cuban Communist control in Latin America. Relationships between the US and Nicaragua go back to the Gold Rush and Cornelius Vanderbilt’s attempts to expedite…

…could be compared with the communist system of Russia, before it collapsed 12 years ago. The writer herself, who was born in Russia during that time, wasn’t a fan of collectivism and emigrated from communist Russia for that reason. The author wasn’t very…

…into the hands of Vietnam from the former local power of France. As a temporary arrangement, Vietnam was divided into a north (controlled by communist Ho Chi Minh) and a south (still controlled by France and anti-communists). In 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected…

…accusations. He demanded that people who were supposed Communists give up names to other Communists in order to not be sent to jail. In the Salem Witch trials you either confessed or you were killed, so there was no way out if you were innocent. Same thing applied…