Cold War

In the aftermath of WWII, the international context war very particular: the war has bled Europe dry and the continent was thus to be rebuilt. The world was divided into two hostile camps: the West side, under the aegis of the USA and which gathered democratic countries and was politically, economically and military biding. On the other part, there was the East side, with the Soviet Union and satellite nations gathered by communism. At this …

…the crisis: instead of denying the McCarthyism it has almost encouraged it. She noticed that American values had been threatened by these anti-communists campaign just like the basic principles of the Americanism as “the right to independent thought, to hold unpopular beliefs”. She also condemned the attitude of the Senate which have been affected too much by suspicion and vilification while its role of being the defender of the US Constitution had lost its meaning.