"Calling in the Wagons: J. Edgar Hoover, the Committee for Public Justi" by Robert John Whalen
 

Date of Award

4-1983

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

Abstract

With the end of the Second World War the sphere of international antagonism shifted from the Axis-Ally confrontation to former allies and arising superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. Their contrasting ideological differences and national interests resulted in a period of mutual antagonism (which exists to this day) commonly referred to as the Cold. War. This international rivalry had a dramatic effect on what and how the United States public and her domestic intelligence agencies viewed as a foreign instigated threat to "national security." Tension between Russian communism and western capitalism preceded World War II. Since the successful Bolshevik revolution in November of 1917 the United States has struggled to counter the domestic radicalism of professed foreign influence within the country's constitutional and legal framework. It has not always been successful. During World War I Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer indiscriminately arrested and for some, illegally deported alleged aliens who held "dangerous" or dissenting views. The post war Red Scare of 1919 further revealed the limits to which dissenting or radical opinions would be tolerated.

Comments

A Master’s Essay Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Department of History, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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