Joseph McCarthy

Paranoia is a frightening thing. It completely alters the way someone lives and thinks. Harsh judgments can be made when we suspect the worst is coming. A famous example of this was Senator Joseph McCarthy. During the late 1940’s and 1950’s, he believed over two hundred communists had hacked the United States Government System (McCarthyism). He desired to find and uncover the ‘communists” hiding in the United States. This was an ongoing subject of quandary and chaos for many years. Most…

Communism is a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being described to the community as a whole. I believe that communism posed a domestic threat towards America. I say this because it posed many different risks towards America. This wasn’t a good result for the country. It lead to many problems and altercations. Many different eras of communism were main components of being a threat towards America. The Cold War was a leader…

Paranoia is the heart of the Cold War. Paranoia is defined as “a mental condition characterized by delusions of...exaggeration,” and further, misperceptions of reality. This form of madness fueled the Cold War and its pop culture, government manipulation/exploitation of citizens, and the loss of humanity during the Cold War Era. Many of these themes are expressed in The Cold War 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb, directed by Stanley Kubrick. Fear…

lives in consequence of these trials were paralleled in the McCarthy Hearings and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Arthur Miller uses The Crucible as a comparison between the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism by showing how the accusers in both situations used their power to stir mass hysteria, harbored corrupt motives, and dictated unjust trials and punishments.…

show what will happen if nothing is done to prevent communism from spreading. Another part of the ad shows a man with a shadow that does not correspond with him, to further warn people about communists. This part of the ad relates to a man named Joseph McCarthy, who accused many people of being communists. The fake shadow relates to the fact that anyone may be a communist or, a double agent. People even became ready to surrender their friends after seeing the deceptive nature of real communists…

During the Cold War Era (1947-1991), the content of the film industry was severely influenced by the threat of a nuclear war the spread of Communism into the United States. Various film panels such as the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (MPA) were created in order to regulate the content of the film industry by censoring anti-American substance. Because the growth and evolution of the McCarthyism, or the…

How are Salem witch trials and the Red Scare similar? The Salem witch trials began in 1692 and the Red Scare in the fifties. However, both of these events are alike because they both involved a witch hunt against people with unpopular views. Although the Salem witch trials and Red Scare are decades apart, the similarities through the causes and the trial proceedings. One way the trial in Salem is like the communist scare involves fear and corrupt authority figures as the causes. In Salem the…

a source of protection whereas the House of Un-American Activities Committee used their reputation as a source of power to convict suspected communists. In conclusion, sustaining a good name is extremely important in both the Salem Witch and the McCarthy…

The history of mankind has brought about many instances where there have been episodes of mass hysteria. Although history is taught so that we may learn from past mistakes, there is still a tendency for it to repeat itself. Epidemics of false accusations and innocent executions seem all too familiar in the study of humankind. In the late 1600s, several small Massachusetts towns had executed many of their citizens under the false pretense that they had been practicing witchcraft. There was a…

The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a self-contained play about a horrible period in America. Miller wrote the play during the time of senator McCarthy. McCarthy who was an anti-communist conducted with special congressional committees highly controversial investigations intended to find and execute communist sympathizer in the united states if they didn’t cooperate with them. The Crucible opened on Thursday October 19 in the Aaron Davis Hall located in the City College of New York. The…