on February 7‚ 1950‚ in Wheeling‚ West Virginia. In this speech‚ McCarthy addressed that he had a government document listing over two hundred communists who were currently serving in the U.S. Government and military. This serious accusation thus launched the Red Scare in the United States. Arthur Miller alludes to this historical event in his
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The KKK dominated the South and those who did not fit in found that they were facing the full force of the law. Those who supported un-American political beliefs‚ such as communism‚ were suspects for all sorts of misdemeanors. The so-called "Red Scare" refers to the fear of communism in the USA during the 1920’s. 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. However many Americans were
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Crucible In Relation To The Red Scare. During the 1940’s and 1950’s there was mass hysteria that broke out in the United States. The “Red Scare” was a large scale panic across the United States Of America. This was during the cold war‚ at this time the U.S. was worried about communists and espionage due to that we had caught Russian spies across the U.S. “The Crucible” has a similar plot line to the “Red scare”‚ due to how mass hysteria is spread so quickly over false accusations. In “The Crucible” witchcraft
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Age of Terror In most cases‚ the grass is always greener on the other side‚ but in the matter of the Red Scare it was no where close to being greener on the other side. The false accusal of supposed members of the communist party led to the underground communist movement and more radical actions. The Reds‚ or communists‚ were forced to better protect their identities‚ which‚ in affect got others caught before themselves. One of the biggest questions raised during this time was whether or not the
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Red Scare The Red Scare of 1919 was the first of two major periods in American History when fear of radicalism culminated in the persecution and deportation of Americans thought to be radicals (communists‚ anarchists‚ or socialists). An unprecedented event‚ the Red Scare of 1919 exhibits how popular suppression and fear of radicalism can have disastrous consequences. The causes of the Red Scare are numerous and varied‚ however‚ one of the most important factors that contributed to the scare was
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proud of their democratic domain. This fear came about after World War One‚ and came to be known as the Red Scare. Right wing government officials used this paranoia in order to prosecute thousands of left wing activists. This ordeal reemerged after World War Two had ended‚ the Second Red Scare had started. A leading politician of the prosecution of many leftist during the Second Red Scare was senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy fed off of the paranoia that struck America‚ and accused many of his
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America during the horrific period known to history as the "Red Scare". A coup of power in American life was recently completed in Senator Joseph McCarthy’s rise to national attention as "judge‚ jury‚ prosecutor‚ castigator‚ and press agent‚ all in one." (Army-McCarthy Hearings) The Wisconsin Republican Senator was successfully trampling the State Department and other federal agencies‚ filling each day’s headlines with new accusations of Communists inside American society. Perhaps the biggest change
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did not see coming was the popularity that would follow communism in the future. The fear did not come from the Communist Party itself‚ but the obsession of a small group of people with power to stop the Red Scare that spread rapidly in the America in both the early 1900’s and 1940’s. Red Scare is the term given to the spread of communism that infiltrated the US government. But communists in America were the strange new kids on the block that nobody thought was going to gain popularity in the political
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to America by the Red Scare‚ the Cold War and McCarthyism. The Red Scare endured until the mid-1920’s and brought about the periodic suspension of common freedoms‚ as individuals associated with having socialist ties were frequently threatened and imprisoned. They were dogged by law requirement‚ distanced from loved ones and terminated from their occupations. Despite the fact that the atmosphere of trepidation and suppression started to ease in the late 1950’s‚ the Red Scare has kept on impacting
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The Red Scare was a time shortly after the end of World War I when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia occurred. The United States had a fear of communists‚ socialists‚ anarchists‚ and other radical groups following the series of bombings in 1919. Many innocent people were jailed for expressing their views‚ civil liberties were ignored‚ and many Americans feared that a communist government would take over. During World War I‚ patriotism was prevalent in the United States due to the propaganda being
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