Joseph McCarthy

During the WWI and WWII, many of the Americans feared the Red Scare and what would the attackers possibly have in mind to do to the United States. The American government instilled much of their fear in its own citizens towards the communist government. The Red Scare started shortly after the end of the World War 1 and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia by the Communists. This scare went world wide after the Communists had…

after World War II, the war has not disappeared, the atmosphere of terror of the Cold War was to followed. While the US against with the Soviet Union in the international community. From the late 1940s to the early 1950s, setting off a "McCarthyism" as the representative of the anti-communist, xenophobic movement, involving all levels of American politics, education and cultural fields, its impact is still visible. With the formation of the Cold War, Sino-US relations with different ideological…

Power-hungry Finger-pointers. These two historical events have much in common, particularly their leaders. Abigail Williams and Joeseph McCarthy are both “power-hungry finger pointers.” They both are fantastic at blaming innocent people for crimes, and they are professional power and attention hogs.The process of the two events are also similar, even though the events happened in different time periods, and were about different topics. In the Crucible, there are about 8, or so steps. The…

Kevin Hannaford History Term Paper 2/23/15 The Political War The so-called "Red Scare" refers to the fear of communism in the USA during the 1920s. “It is said that there were over 150,000 anarchists or communists in USA in 1920 alone and this represented only 0.1% of the overall population of the USA.” (history learning center - source 8) It is surprising looking back and seeing how the percent is so small that they scared the…

Compliance to an Dangerous Path Throughout history the compliance to totalitarianism is blamed on certain groups of people that enacted social corruption, to make it appear as if they were saving humanity. Leaders and associations, mostly focusing on Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini, they manipulated their countries and made it resemble that they were improving the country and community, when in reality they ruined the community. This relates to The Crucible and during the Red Scare both time…

Pola Matoga IB 1B English A Abigail As A Victim Of Her Society In The Crucible The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a play with many complex characters, and sends multiple messages. One of those dynamic characters is Abigail, a seventeen year old girl. At first glance it is easy to blame Abigail for the witch trials in Salem, as she is a devious and manipulative girl, however, the truth is that Abigail is a victim of a strict, Puritan society. Her upbringing and past led her to be the person she…

Captain Beatty’s asserts that regardless if not everyone is born free and equal, everyone is to adapt similar mindsets to prevent one group from being greater than another. And to do this, the implementation of burning books can create a more uniform society, preventing some from knowing more than others. The removal of books, in other words an extreme case of censorship, can ultimately alter man’s mind. This can possibly make them more gullible to false information, seeing as there is no…

If you show people that situation A is bad because of problem A and that situation B has problem A then people can guess that situation B is bad too. This is all through logic. Arthur Miller attempted this with The Crucible as he explained that the Salem trials was terrible because people were able to be charged from only witness testimony just like his current situation in the 1950s when people were being charged of treason because of McCarthyism. Miller effectively explores this political…

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…

The paper I write today will be based off of two Periods of time with similar actions and consequences following major events that followed. The first one of these two Periods I will explain and compare is the Red Scare of 1919 which is when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia that overtook the former czar state begin to have ripple effects globally and the attackers begin to have an effect on nations in the west. In the United States people were afraid of the communist movement that was…