PPT-McCarthyism 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. Presentation of accusation Service on defendant 1 When t he accusation is initia ted by a a gr and jury t he foreperson shall present the accusation to the court in t he presence of the grand juror s which shall 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.. 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.. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the prospect of communist subversion at home and abroad seemed frighteningly real to many people in the United States. These fears came to define–and, in some cases, corrode–the era’s . DH . chp. 4-5. Alger Hiss. Hiss had clerked for a Supreme Court Justice, advised FDR at Yalta, helped found the UN, and headed the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Whittaker Chambers (ed. at . Sen. Joseph McCarthy. While the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) had been formed in 1938 as an anti-Communist organ (among other things), McCarthy’s accusations in 1950 heightened the political tensions of the times.. BY: Kate Rhoads, Maya Givens, Emma Smith, Savanah Northern . About Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Wisconsin senator, Joseph R. McCarthy is most known for being a symbol of the “Red Scare” and initiating the term McCarthyism. McCarthyism is the practice of accusing one of disloyalty, many times without support.. OH GOD. COMMIES EVERYWHERE. SPIES WATCHING US. THEY HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOM. The . Red Scare. A period of extreme paranoia of . communist. infiltrators in . America. Communism. in . America*. *Communism . 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…. . Drama and Allegory. The Rise of Communism. First Red Scare – 1917-1920. Russian Revolution - 1919. People accused/jailed with little or no evidence . 1939 WWII – Russia, ally to USA. Alien Registration Act – 1940 . Tardos. codes. Antonino. Simone and Boris . Š. kori. ć. Eindhoven University of Technology. CWG, Dec 2010. Outline. Introduction to forensic watermarking. Collusion attacks. Aim. Attack models. Tardos. 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.