McCarthyism

destroyed himself by his overreaching and incoherent performance in the Army-McCarthy hearings which swept the nation in 1954. Today in politics, to say someone uses McCarthyism or is a McCarthyist is one of the dirtiest, ugliest insults you could use (“McCarthyism”). Coined off of Joseph and, as the author of the online article “McCarthyism and the Red Scare” stated, has “become synonymous with reckless opportunism, cruel and baseless accusation, and bullying coercion.” The Red Scare also had…

Arthur Miller (1915-2005) is a well-known author and playwright of the twentieth century. He was raised in New York City and graduated from the University of Michigan. He graduated to become a journalist, but changed his purpose after finding success from his first dramatic script, and develop more into playwright. He made a family with his wife and had two children, then later bought a farm in Connecticut. During this time he continued to do more writing and became increasingly famous for a…

The Salem Witch Trials and The McCarthy Era Throughout the history of America, we see history repeat itself throughout centuries with similar events that change the view of people throughout time. The McCarthy era was a time in America in where accusations of communism were claimed towards the people. This event led to the creation of the play, “The Crucible” written by Arthur Miller, basing his ideas off of the Salem Witch Trials. There is a relationship between these events, that supports…

News, reports, importance in history and America itself, it all comes down to the news and radio broadcasting. Edward Roscoe Murrow, also known as Ed Murrow, was an American broadcaster and reporter. Murrow started at Columbia Broadcasting System as a reporter. The Columbia Broadcasting System, otherwise known as CBS, is a commercial broadcast television network. Soon to be a journalist, as a reporter one of his many greatest addresses was the bombing of London during World War II. He was…

dominated system of order to make a controversial statement regarding political and social attitudes towards Communism in 1950s America (1). Published in 1953, at a time of rising tensions in the Cold War era, the play is an allegory for McCarthyism. McCarthyism refers to Senator Joseph McCarthy who began an anti-communist crusade affecting all levels of US society. Miller focuses on the domestic, and specifically social attitudes which developed as a result of a suspicion and fear that…

Joseph McCarthy was born in 1908 in Appleton, Wisconsin. He attended school until he was fourteen but dropped out in eighth grade to help on the family farm as well as raise chickens. At the age of twenty, he decided to go back to school and in one year went through ninth to twelfth grades to graduate. He graduated with honors yet he told people he had higher grades than he actually earned. (Morgan 2003) Ted Morgan in Legal Affairs noted that McCarthy’s high school grades were below 90 due to…

The Army-McCarthy Hearings took place between April and June of 1954. Joseph McCarthy, Senator of the state of Wisconsin, wrongly accused people of association with communism to further his political career. When Joseph McCarthy was up for reelection, he turned his investigations on communism in the Army to gain public support. Because Pvt. G. David Schine, former staff member on McCarthy’s team, had been drafted into the army, the Army then accused McCarthy of trying to seek out special…

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…

The Salem Witch Trials v. The Red Scare - Dawn of Hysteria In the 1690s, mass hysteria overcame Salem, Massachusetts. After exhibiting strange behaviors, people were being accused of witchcraft. Since witchcraft was deemed as a capital crime in 1641 (law2,umkc), the punishment for it was either imprisonment, or hanging. A similar event happened after the end of World War II. In 1947, the Cold War had begun. (Wolfe). Due to a lingering fear of the Soviets and Communism, people were accused and…

Many people must deal with being accused of something they did not have any affiliation with. Some examples include citizens in The Crucible, Muslims after the 9/11 terrorist attack, and people in the state department or the Democrat party. All it took was one person to say someone performs witchcraft in The Crucible, and they will get arrested. All it took was Muslim culture to get accused of executing terrorist attacks against the United States. All it took was a career in the state department…