Friday, April 10, 2015

AWWWW the RED SCARE is BACK


How did differences in ideologies and the fear of communism lead to the Red Scare? Our nation has always been an anti-communist nation, ever since people immigrated into our country in the very beginning they were trying to get away from a very dominating government. Theses governments weren’t all communist but most had many communistic traits. So when we hear about communistic events happening it somewhat scares the people in our country because we have learned that we want no part in that type of government system.

                Nothing was scaring the American citizens until our government officials were being put on trial due to beliefs of them being communists. As soon as these allegations took place people didn’t know if they could trust their senators or representatives in congress. It ultimately “scared” them and they had no one to look to for help or to answer questions because they were all being said to be soviet communistic followers. This did not help us when it came to trying to end the cold war between us and the soviets. All these allegations made ending this war a very difficult task.

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

U.S. vs. Soviet Union


                What caused the U.S. to get involved in the war rather than the Soviet Union? It all comes down to our different ideologies, ours involves how we always love helping out the other small countries around the world that are being “bullied” by bigger countries or countries that have different governments like communistic ones like North Korea. So when the war began we saw a small country getting bullied by a bigger communist one and we decided we needed to pitch in and help. The main reason we did is 1. Because at that time our country was still scared of changing into a communist government, and 2. We also love helping out small helpless countries.

                The difference between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is they think more about themselves and we act like a big brother to all of the other countries in the world. Sometimes this gets us in trouble but other times it helps us keep good ties with countries and may give us opportunity to their resources.

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

US vs. USSR Agriculture 101


What are the differences between Soviet Union agriculture and the agricultural practices of the United States? It all starts with the role of the government in our society. The Soviet Union has a communistic government which is based on the idea “that everyone shares everything” and that is why their agriculture is the way it is. It started with many small farms that the government owned but farmers farmed, the thing is they weren’t making the maximum production they could. Later the government decided to merge all the individual farms into large state collective farms, that government continued to own.

In the United States we do things differently. The government doesn’t own our farms but they have a few different regulations and rules that we have to follow but for the most part we can ultimately do whatever we want to our fields. We can grow any crops we want on them and we can sell them and receive the profit for them because we own them not the government.

The thing that is the most different between our ways of living and our ways of farming is government conflict. The government is concerned with how we live and with what we do on our farms, because that helps our economy and keeps our country running. Where in the USSR the government owns everything and they receive all of the profits from farming. So the work ethic from farmer in the US is better than those in the USSR due to the fact that the US farmer gets to keep his earnings after he sells his crops.