Fear can lead to many things; it can be the driving factor to terrible occurrences, paranoid investigations, and sudden tension. A devastating example of fear causing negative feats is the Red Scare and the Rosenberg Trial. Americans were afraid of the Soviet Union because they felt threatened and didn’t want communism, and in an act of fearful behavior, sentenced to death two innocent people of involvement with the Soviets. This ended up being pointless, as they were never actually in cahoots with Russia.
To begin, America was afraid of the Soviet Union because they felt threatened that the Soviets would try to enforce communism in America. They didn’t want to be a communistic society, and since they were competing for dominance, the tensions …show more content…
And they didn’t just blame them, no, they went so far as to give them a death sentence. The Rrosenberg Ttrial occurred after Russia tested a new atomic bomb they were developing. In the article it states: “In 1949, four years after the U.S. detonated two atomic bombs, effectively ending World War II, the Soviet Union test-launched an atomic bomb, an act that raised suspicions within the U.S. government. According to U.S. officials, the test intimated that top-secret atomic weapons information had been purloined by someone within the U.S. and delivered to the Soviets.” (1). The government believed that Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were spies who were in the middle of soviet espionage in the Uunited Sstates. As a result, the government gave them a death sentence, and they were shortly killed. In the end, the Rosenbergs turned out to be innocent. Because of the US’s suspicion and paranoia, they ended up killing two people who did nothing wrong, just because of a rumor that was spread. This was the level of fear that the country was at. In the article it states: "The Rosenberg case illustrates the excesses that can occur when we're afraid," said Meredith Fuchs, part of the team that fought to get the testimony released. "In the 1950s, we were afraid of communism. Today, we're afraid of terrorism. We don't want to make the same mistakes we made 50 years ago." (1). It is really scary
To begin, America was afraid of the Soviet Union because they felt threatened that the Soviets would try to enforce communism in America. They didn’t want to be a communistic society, and since they were competing for dominance, the tensions …show more content…
And they didn’t just blame them, no, they went so far as to give them a death sentence. The Rrosenberg Ttrial occurred after Russia tested a new atomic bomb they were developing. In the article it states: “In 1949, four years after the U.S. detonated two atomic bombs, effectively ending World War II, the Soviet Union test-launched an atomic bomb, an act that raised suspicions within the U.S. government. According to U.S. officials, the test intimated that top-secret atomic weapons information had been purloined by someone within the U.S. and delivered to the Soviets.” (1). The government believed that Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were spies who were in the middle of soviet espionage in the Uunited Sstates. As a result, the government gave them a death sentence, and they were shortly killed. In the end, the Rosenbergs turned out to be innocent. Because of the US’s suspicion and paranoia, they ended up killing two people who did nothing wrong, just because of a rumor that was spread. This was the level of fear that the country was at. In the article it states: "The Rosenberg case illustrates the excesses that can occur when we're afraid," said Meredith Fuchs, part of the team that fought to get the testimony released. "In the 1950s, we were afraid of communism. Today, we're afraid of terrorism. We don't want to make the same mistakes we made 50 years ago." (1). It is really scary