PPT-McCarthyism

Sen Joseph McCarthy While the House UnAmerican Activities Committee HUAC had been formed in 1938 as an antiCommunist organ among other things McCarthys accusations in 1950 heightened the political tensions of the times. Accusation Part II. The "RED" Threat. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s America was overwhelmed with concerns about the threat of communism.. Capitalizing on those concerns, young Senator Joseph McCarthy made a public accusation that more than 200 communists had infiltrated the US government.. What Is Communism?. A government system in which all property is community property.. Everyone works.. The government provides food, housing, healthcare, etc., but little to no wages.. No one owns land, houses, etc. . def: the wide spread fear that communists living in America would try to take over. Congress Hunts for Communists. Truman makes it against the law to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government- SMITH ACT. Fahrenheit 451 . Author – Ray Douglas Bradbury . Born in 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. Loving extended family served as foundation for his stories. Waukegan = “Green Town”. Moved to Los Angeles in1934 where he first began to write – Joined the Los Angeles Science Fiction League . 1949- The Soviet Union explodes . its own nuclear weapon.. 1949- China falls to the Communists. 1950-53 The Korean War. The House on Un-American Activities . Committee. HUAC. Lucille Ball. 1953-Investigated by HUAC for registering to vote as a communist in the 1930’s at the urging of her Grandfather.. The time period from 1946 to 1955, during which Senator Joseph McCarthy led a movement to find and prosecute suspected communists. Also known as the . Red Scare . time period. McCarthyism. came to mean false charges of disloyalty.. Semester 2. Week 7. The New Red Scare. Rumors & accusations of communists in the U.S. & of Communist infiltration in the gov’t tapped into fears that the Communists were trying to take over the world. to . McCarthyism. & . Symbolism . in . The Crucible . McCarthyism. : In the 1940s and 1950s Americans feared the encroachment of Communism. The Soviet Union was growing in power and the threat of a nuclear holocaust was on the forefront of American minds. Eastern Europe had become a conglomerate of Communist satellite nations. Throw in China and Americans began to feel they were surrounded by a Communist threat. Paranoia ensued.. -Arthur Miller. 1915-2005. The Crucible . by Arthur Miller. Grew up during the Great Depression. Wrote screenplays for Hollywood. The Second Red Scare. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s America was overwhelmed with concerns about the threat of communism growing in Eastern Europe and China. . Was this fear justified?. Well…yes and no…. Who Really Moves the . Ouija . Board?. The devil gives people powers. The devil grants loyalty if those with the “powers” harm others. Historical Context. A "witchcraft craze" rippled through Europe from the 1300s to the end of the 1600s. . Definition. The practice of publicizing accusations of political disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence.. 2. . The use of unfair investigatory or accusatory methods in order to suppress opposition.. The "RED" Threat. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s America was overwhelmed with concerns about the threat of communism.. Capitalizing on those concerns, young Senator Joseph McCarthy made a public accusation that more than 200 communists had infiltrated the US government.. Red Scare. A New Hysteria. 1946-1954. Commies. !. Commies: Be very, very afraid. Long history of “Red Scares”. Anti-communist sentiment goes back to the Gilded Age. Coming on the heels of the Paris Commune rebellion of 1871, the 1877 RR strike was regarded by many as the start of the “concerted assertion of Communism throughout the United States.