The McCarthy Witch Hunts

by Herminne Tonita - The late 1940s and the 1950s were anxious years for Americans. Despite their prosperity they were worried by fears of war. The nation they feared was the Soviet Union. They believed that the Soviet Union's communist way of running a country was cruel and wrong. Some Americans saw communism as a spreading disease. Communism was thought to threaten both the freedom of...

The Space Race

by Herminne Tonita - "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth." President Kennedy's proposal in May 1961 that the United States should send a man to the moon was eagerly welcomed by politicians and the American people. Soon work had begun on the Apollo program, as the...