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. 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. 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 Crucible, . The Salem Witch Trials, and McCarthyism. . What do they all have in common????. Things to Know about Arthur Miller. 1915-2005. Grew up in a working class family; worked as a teenager to earn money to go to college. 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.. 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.. 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. 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.. -Arthur Miller. 1915-2005. The Crucible . by Arthur Miller. Grew up during the Great Depression. Wrote screenplays for Hollywood. Cold War Spies and the Rise of Joseph McCarthy. Today’s Objective. After today’s lesson, students will be able to…. Discuss the legitimacy of the communist threat in the 1950s and how the U.S. handled such threats. 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 . st. American Literature. Vocab Unit 1. Practice Capitalization and Punctuation. This will be graded. Lesson plan standards and sample. Annotating, makeup work, bathroom rules. Not an option. This is an expectation, as is complete sentences. I will grade annotations if I must. . 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..