"The McCarthy Era of the 1950’s and the Salem Witch Trials of the 1600’s were major events in American history that destroyed the lives and careers of many innocent victims. These tragic events were similar in that they demonstrated how hard times lead to society’s need to find a scapegoat. They also show the shame and regret that take place after the bloodbaths occur. The parallels between these two events‚ which took place almost 300 years apart‚ are remarkable." "However‚ the Salem Witchcraft
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he led Americans against the rise of Communism. Spurred by McCarthyism‚ he initially began to discharge suspected Communists within the government. Due to fear of being blacklisted‚ Eisenhower‚ the proceeding president‚ was reluctant to confront McCarthy. The Red Scare of the 1950s was thriving and the presidents waged war against foreign Communist powers in order not to be accused of being sympathetic towards the opposition. They conformed to public opinion and shaped politics in America into
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Luke Nyman Modern History Mrs. Mason April 11‚ 2008 JOE McCARTHY From 1950 to 1954‚ Senator Joseph McCarthy was one of the most heard of and talked about figures in a time of many important political happenings. He was held in a complete and immortal infamy for creating a terrible “Red Scare” and smearing numerous innocent victims. McCarthy was branded so completely a demagogue‚ a bully‚ and a liar‚ so that even more than 50 years later his name remains fully associated with witch-hunts
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American by investigating communist acts that were alleged by people. Despite the organizations effort to calm Americans down‚ Americans still feared the possibility of Communism and becoming a nation similar to Russia (Tindall & Shi). Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin became one of the most ruthless exploiters of communism. He accused a large amount of people of communist acts‚ mostly government works in which he claimed were Soviet spies and communist sympathizers. He was very paranoid and often
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that lead it to the Cold War. Although the war didn’t involve fighting directly with Russia‚ it still affected the American society and domestic policy. The war affected America so much that it lead to a fear of livelihood; precisely when Joseph McCarthy began his “witch hunt”. The Cold war lead to an enlarged fear of nuclear war; as well‚ it affected many of the domestic policies. Even if the fear of impending doom was to be set aside‚ there would still be the fear of being accused as a communists
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Research Paper - What is McCarthyism? The period of McCarthyism‚ named after a republican senator Joseph R. McCarthy‚ is said to have begun well before McCarthy¡¯s own involvement. During this period‚ which lasted from the 1940s to the 1950s‚ Senator McCarthy‚ who strongly opposed communism‚ claimed to have a list of the names of the communists in America. Though it was later found that this was a fraud‚ it certainly arose fears of communism in the minds of the Americans. Events of the 1940s and
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that time in order to scare and manipulate citizens. Similarly‚ Nurse Ratched symbolizes McCarthyism because she instills fear and exerts control over the patients in the mental ward. Nurse Ratched’s character represents the famous senator‚ Joseph McCarthy. Specifically‚ Nurse Ratched’s practice of rewarding patients who spy on one another is just like the practice of McCarthyism. McCarthyism was the practice of arbitrarily accusing a person with any ties to the Soviet Union of being a communist. In
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The Crucible and the McCarthy Era Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ depicts the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 but is analogous to the McCarthy trials of the 1950s. In both situations‚ widespread hysteria occurs‚ stemming from existing fears of the people of that particular era. The Salem witchhunt trials parallel the McCarthy era in three major aspects: unfounded accusations‚ hostile interrogation of numerous innocent people and the ruination and death of various people’s
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America as Senator Joseph McCarthy would Blacklist innocent people for being “communists” due to little to no evidence and the person having a few opposing traits to him like being Liberal‚ Chinese‚ or speaking out against him. The public were okay with this of course‚ seeing how there was that much fear being spread and rumours of Russian communists taking over the country forced people to do whatever they could to save their “freedom”-even if they had spoken out against McCarthy for what he was doing
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Mass Hysteria. Hysteria describes a state of mind‚ one of unmanageable fear or emotional excess. Mass hysteria refers to a condition affecting a group of persons‚ characterized by excitement or anxiety‚ irrational behaviour or beliefs or inexplicable symptoms of illness. History is said to repeat itself‚ and in the case of hysteria this seems to be a certainty. Over thousands of years numerous events have began a whirlwind of mass hysteria blowing situations out of proportion escalating to extreme
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