House Un-American Activities Committee

In the article “A Decade of Fear” Sam Robert explains how McCarthyism turned Americans against each other in the decade after World War II by creating fear on every single one of them, because they were either involved with Communism or knew someone who was. According to Robert “screenwriters, actors, directors, and producers were dragged before the House Un-American Activities Committee and asked to “name names” of colleagues who had Communist ties or sympathies” (par. 13). In other words, men…

international events justify the American Responses at home? Use the documents and your knowledge of american history in the period between 1945 and 1961 to address the prompt. The United States and Soviet Union became well known rivals following World War II, this antagonism between the two superpowers develops as the Cold War. Obviously this directly affected US foreign policy, but also our country’s domestic policy at home. The justification by international events of American responses at…

11014474 Question 1: Senator Hill makes three challenges to the charges against him. The first is that the committee could not conduct investigations into this subject matter. The committee lays out its purpose clearly; it is to investigate the accusations of sexual assault claims against Senator Hill. The congressional power of inquiry is enforced both in Kilbourn v. Thompson and McGrain v. Daugherty, as well as the power to punish witnesses who do not comply. However, the precedent sent forth…

understand the Hollywood black list, what was happening in American history must be understood first. With the fall of Nazism and Imperialism at the end of World War II, America would constantly clash with Russia. (Britannica Inc.2016) America being Capitalist and Russia being Communist caused many issues and would cause the citizen to often have issues as well starting in 1947. Due to these issues an investigative group by the name of “The House…

Cold War affected people tremendously. It was a series of incidents that brought the world’s superpowers to the verge of disaster. The policy that rationale for an abnormal arms buildup in the United States, was the Oversight Policy. Oddly the Americans commissioners encouraged the development of atomic weapons like the ones that had ended World War II. There were multiple actions taken by the Oversight Policy. It included:…

the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and a Tony. Miller left his first wife in 1956 and soon thereafter “(he) married famed actress Marilyn Monroe” (Arthur Miller). The House of Un-American Activities Committee refused to renew his passport, summoning him to appear before the committee. Like Mr. Protector in The Crucible, Miller refuses to “name names” of certain political activists. He would rather preserve his personal integrity and risk his own reputation for the sake…

Johnson. Characters in the play were also inspired by real people. The authors were also clearly influenced by the atmosphere of fear and accusation created during the McCarthy investigations and their own involvement in facing the House Un-American Activities Committee. To begin, On the Waterfront was based on the series…

when fear of communists was at an all-time high in America. As such McCarthy’s accusations sparked a nationwide fear about communist collaborators in the American government. It is for this reason, Arthur Miller wrote “The Crucible” a play that describes the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 and showed the similarities of the terrible period in American history known as “McCarthyism.” (Crimson) The lies told during The…

changes people, this was eminent in the 40s/50s with the growing of totartalistic, communist state. Americans lives were dramatically changed just because of the fright of communist in ally nations. Friends targetted friends, careers were ruined, corrupt parts of the government, so many changes were made during this time, and America would forever be scarred by the anti-communist battle. In the American mind, the communist were a huge arising problem, and Truman was too soft on communism.…

on the actions of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the 1950s” (117). Arthur Miller was adamant that his critics know these events were not made…