The fact that McCarthyism was so widespread and powerful tells us that American anxiety was extremely strong back then. After the World War II, the U.S. were victorious, but so were the Soviets. So, the two great economic and political powers opposed each other from the ideological point of view: communist vs. capitalist propaganda took place. McCarthyism didn't just try to protect the American way of life and capitalist ideology. It ascertained that everyone who wasn't for it was in fact against it, thereby declaring enemies everywhere, instilling fear and paranoia into every citizen. In the course of establishing the cultural notion of "American dream", the red anti-capitalist discourse (which had already been present in popular culture) was unwelcome and had to be banished.
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Which of the following was one way reformers attempted to undermine the influence of political machines?
by organizing voter registration drives in immigrant neighborhoods
by having cities adopt the council-manager form of local government
by prosecuting immigrants accused of bribery and other forms of political corruption
by establishing political councils to monitor and document the activities of the machines
Answer: by having cities adopt the council-manager form of local government
Explanation:
Progressive reformers developed a movement in the early 1900s which produced two new forms of government, and the council-manager form was one of them. This development was intended to weaken the influence of political machines in the government. Partisanism was meant to be replaced by efficiency and professionalism.
Cardinal Robert Bellarmine was in charge of commerce with
difficult issues linked to the Church’s power and beliefs during the Galileo disagreement.
He wrote the following letter to Paolo Antonio Foscarini in response to
Foscarini’s book defending Galileo.
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