communist senator of the United States wrote a famous speech named “Enemies From Within”, that made accusations of communist spies inside the United States government with no evidence . This event took place during the Mccarthyism era when Witch Hunt of communist began, The Mccarthyism challenging the communist ideology, Victims who were Blacklisted lost opportunities and liberties. With the rise of Joseph Mccarthy's into presidency, Witch Hunt for communist began after his speech because his accusation
an era that instilled fear among the American people. Propaganda, fear tactics, and new laws were created to deter people from joining the Communist agenda. People out there believed that the Soviet Union was out to get them and convert them to Communism. Therefore many Americans, afraid of the lower class starting an uprising, watched their backs and looked out for any signs that someone could be trying to ruin the American dream by being a Communist. This was the beginning of the Second Red Scare
History. The mentality of rioting mobs correlates strongly with mob hysteria. Particularly this phenomenon played a substantial role in the catastrophe of the Salem Witch Trials and the McCarthy era. A book named The Crucible written by Arthur Miller was staunchly influenced by both events. The McCarthy era and The Crucible are both prime examples of mob hysteria which makes people think unclearly, abandons their morals, ethics, and shows blatant corruption.
Have you ever heard the saying “The past has a funny way of repeating itself?” People tend to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Typically people do not learn from their mistakes, so they have to suffer the consequences. In the play The Crucible, we learn how people fail to learn their lesson the first time around. The author of The Crucible, Arthur Miller, wrote this play because we as citizens kept repeating the same mistakes over again in the 1950’s along with Joseph McCarthy. Arthur
Paths of Glory was a film by famous director, Stanley Kubrick, based off a novel by Humphrey Cobb that was even further somewhat based off a true story. This film was about three French soldiers who were unjustly executed because of selfish Generals. These soldiers were merely picked at random (or to be silenced) in order to have some kind of scape goat for the blunder in failing to take a heavily fortified German position. The article “War and ‘Politics’: The French Army Munities of 1917” by Leonard
story of the Salem witch trials of 1692-1693. Miller's tragic drama follows the protagonist John Proctor and his plight for justice amongst mass hysteria, which metaphorically examines the motivations and corruption of the McCarthy era in Miller's own time. McCarthyism was a time period during the 1950s in which, the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, especially of pro-Communist activity, in many instances unsupported by proof or based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence, became
Your Honour, today we are here for one reason only, to give a name, a reputation, a positive face to every single person who was maliciously murdered in the Salem witch trials that occurred in Massachusetts 1692. The killings occurred as a direct repercussion from the town’s people valuing their reputation over their integrity which lead to hysteria, and once these two joined, intolerance took over the town and the court. I am standing before you today, to prove that the people of that repressive