McCarthyism

In the late 1940’s until the early 1950’s America was run by fear. The second Red Scare was running through the streets of America, an effect of the Cold War. A person could be found a Communist with little more than hearsay against them. A senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, and the head of the FBI at the time, J. Edgar Hoover, would become infamous for many questionable treason trials and guilty verdicts. The 1957 movie 12 Angry Men focuses on the Judicial System of the United States and…

this fiasco which has been going on in the Senate, is the very best asset that the Kremlin could have in the same operation of the cold war. And this is what I meant when I say that McCarthy’s antics are the best that the Kremlin could have.” As McCarthyism is happening in the United States, Soviet leader Josef Stalin dies of a stroke. His successor, Nikita Khrushchev begins thinking of ways to scare the United States with the fear of Communism, he states that “"We will take America without…

intensely interesting study about religious persecution, hysteria, and society. Throughout the world man has seen many cases of these types of phenomena. Some of these cases include, but are not limited to, the Holocaust, the Inquisition, and McCarthyism. Unfortunately, a lot of these beliefs stem from lack of education and antiquated beliefs. The intention of this paper is to prove how the underlying message in The Crucible has a direct relationship to the persecution of Communists and…

The Red Scare Enforcers After WWII, with communism sprouting up all over the world, the US government, and it citizens become gripped by a self affirming, nationally unifying, fear of communism, called the second "Red Scare". It was driven by the Committee on Un-American Activities, and characterized by duck and cover drills in elementary schools, bomb shelter construction, and witch hunts for spies embedded in government institutions. Furthermore, it motivated many to build bomb shelters,…

McCarthy, playing to the fervor of anti-communism, used defamation in conjunction with Communist “Witch Hunts” to promote his campaign and increase his reputation. Throughout the McCarthy Era, many Americans fell prey to the dubious accusations that McCarthyism proliferated. McCarthy capitalized on the paranoia…

Crucible During the 1950s, McCarthyism ran rampant throughout the United States. The act of accusing many political figures of belonging to the communist party is defined as McCarthyism. Today, it is often compared to a “Political Witch Hunt.” Author Arthur Miller was one of the political figures named for being a communist. Rather than allowing McCarthyists to defile his name entirely, he decided to fight back by writing a book to shed light on the injustice McCarthyism yielded. Miller’s The…

and once in jail, they were taken back to the originating land of said actuation. The nickname of the accusation was Red Scare and the Red Army. There are multiple rumors throughout the stories of McCarthyism. The articles tie to “The Crucible” because McCarthyism has to do with the play. McCarthyism is about the witch hunt and it gives the facts about it; as of the play acts it out for the reader to…

The McCarthy Era began during the Cold War, which led to suspicion of the Communist country, causing a fear of Communism in the United States. Senator Joseph McCarthy set up witch hunts in search of people who practiced Communism. The people who were accused were given the option of refusing to testify and end up being blacklisted, causing their careers to suffer (something something) or tell McCarthy and the House and accuse others of being Communists. Similarly, in The Crucible, a group of…

The four major ideals of Communism, for future reference are as follows: collective ownership of production, centralized government, censorship, and the distribution of goods. He then becomes rebellious to the society and reads books from houses that have broken the strict equality laws. Mildred, Guy’s wife, disagrees with breaking the rules and leaves him soon after he gets involved with it. She is a conformist rather than a revolutionary, as many are in the novel solely because conformity is a…

The Crucible The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an allegory for the Red Scare in the McCarthy era because people who were accused were forced to give up names of others, has similar consequences when accused, and fear of leader. When people were accused they were punished. All you had to do was say someone's name and make up a story, and people would look at them differently. “John was asked to sign his name by his wife and Hale so that he could live. “ You will sign your name or it is no…