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The clash between communism (共产主义) and capitalism (资本主义) began in 1917, following the October Revolution, when Russia emerged as the worlds first communist nation. This outcome made Russian–American relations a matter of major long-term concern for leaders in both countries.;The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed primarily between the United States and the Soviet Union and those countries respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s. ;On the nuclear weapons front, the US and the USSR pursued nuclear rearmament and developed long-range weapons with which they could strike the territory of the other. ;Cuban Missile Crisis The nuclear arms race brought the two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world closer to nuclear war than ever before in the history of the Cold War. ;By 1947, US president Harry S. Trumans advisors urged him to take immediate steps to counter the Soviet Unions influence. The Truman Doctrine framed the conflict as a contest between free peoples and totalitarian regimes.;High Noon’s production and release in 1952 also intersected with the Red Scare and the Korean War. ;John Wayne strongly despised the film because he felt it was an allegory for blacklisting, which he actively supported. In an interview in May 1971, Wayne stated he considered High Noon the most un-American thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life.” ;The McCarthy Era;Joseph McCarthy was an American politician. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fuelled fears of widespread Communist subversion. ;He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the federal government and elsewhere. Ultimately, McCarthys tactics and his inability to substantiate his claims led him to be discredited and censured by the United States Senate. ;At the time of McCarthys sp