Warm Up Mc Carthyism Red Scare Fear Monger

Warm Up • • • Mc. Carthyism Red Scare Fear Monger Witch Hunt HW: Read answer questions for Mc. Carthy telegram to Truman.

The Hysteria of the Second Red Scare United States History Cold War & Conformity in the 1950 s

What is Mc. Carthyism? • Named after Sen. Joseph Mc. Carthy---one crazy, delusional, mofo. • WAS A FEAR MONGER. • Wanted to accuse any non-traditional American as communist. • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=i. WY 3 i xwl. Vi. I • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=v. E mk. MNYHY

Search for Internal Security • Loyalty and conformity to the wishes of the country a must for the government and society for many Americans. – Were highly suspicious of anything or anyone considered different. – Regarded people with different opinions as a pinko, commie, or un-American. – Only way to measure loyalty was the intensity and consistency of a person’s anti-Communism. – Result: a witch-hunt to root out suspected Communists from every aspect of society. Typical American Family in the 1950 s http: //img. dailymail. co. uk/i/pix/2008/01_05/spenderold 2801_468 x 314. jpg

Basic Characteristics Truman’s Foreign Policy • Cabinet members make speeches that state that communists were everywhere in America and could be anybody. – Basic message: TRUST The Redolution http: //eatemandbeatem. com/red. Scare. jpg NOBODY. – Wanted people to turn in people they suspected of associating or sympathizing with communism. – Special targets placed on college campuses, Hollywood, publishing companies, and editorial staffs.

Pre-Mc. Carthyism HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) – Would serve to destroy the lives of suspected Communists and advance the political careers of key individual politicians. • Purpose. Richard Nixon (Right) In His HUAC Days http: //jeremayakovka. typepad. com/photos/uncategorized/2007/07/11/ni xon_stripling. jpg – Search for suspected Communists, root them out, and investigate the extent of their infiltration

Pre-Mc. Carthyism HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) • How HUAC functioned. – Manipulated various channels of publicity to reveal the political associations of individuals who had unorthodox ideals and ostracize them from positions of power. – Threatened and manipulated witnesses. • As a result, many would tell lies Political Cartoon Criticizing HUAC Methods http: //www. spartacus. schoolnet. co. uk/USAhuac. JPG in order to save their own skin. • Refusal to answer questions or cooperate was similar to an admission of guilt.

Pre-Mc. Carthyism HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) • What it did do: – Frightened movie, television, and radio executives into doing a housecleaning. – Blacklisted actors, actresses, writers, and directors who were suspected of having Communist sympathies. – Forced the movie, television, radio, comic book, and newspaper industries to set Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall Leading An strict standards, many of Actors Protest Against HUAC which would last into the Eighties. http: //people. cohums. ohio-state. edu/childs 1/Outline. Second%20 Red%20 Scare_files/image 001. jpg

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Activity-PSA • Read Mc. Carthyism Speech to West Virginia and answer corresponding questions. • Temp Check: Identify the communist based on the information given. Be prepared to provide 3 pieces of evidence/reasons for your selection. • Due EOC.

Warm Up • • • Define: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Alger Hiss Subversive HW: Complete Herbie Hancock Political Cartoon Analysis about Mc. Carthy.

Joseph Mc. Carthyism Defined • An expression for wild, unfounded charges of disloyalty. – Basically conducted as a witch hunt. Mc. Carthy Campaigning For A Senate Seat http: //www. faculty. umb. edu/hannah_sevian/G 660/Tech. Pres/Fall 2 003/Mc. Carthyism_files/image 002. jpg

Joseph Mc. Carthy: Stroke of Luck--Spies • Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Ethel & Julius Rosenberg Awaiting Execution http: //upload. wikimedia. org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg_NYWTS. jpg – Charged with passing atomic secrets and speeding up Russian success with the atomic bomb. – Judge declared the crime “worse than murder. ” – Rosenbergs sentenced to death and executed in 1953.

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Joseph Mc. Carthy Mc. Carran Acts, 1952 • Mc. Carran-Walter Immigration Act. – Again passed over Truman’s veto. – Empowered the Attorney General to screen out subversives within the permitted quotas and also allowed the Attorney General to deport them even after they became naturalized citizens. • Impact. Criticism Of Mc. Carthyism http: //content. screencast. com/media/ – Intensified America’s preoccupation with internal security. – Increases American xenophobia. – Supported Mc. Carthy’s unfounded claims.

Joseph Mc. Carthy Decline of Mc. Carthyism, 1953 -55 • International Information Administration. – Branch of the State Department responsible for disseminating printed materials to other countries. Book Burning In The U. S. http: //www. 911 familiesforamerica. org/wpcontent/uploads/2007/05/nazi-book-burning-1933. jpg • Failed to uncover a single Communist, but many books, including those of prominent American writers Hemingway and Fitzgerald, were withdrawn and some publicly burned. – Shocked many Americans who were tiring of Mc. Carthy’s Nazistyle tactics.

Joseph Mc. Carthy Decline of Mc. Carthyism, 1953 -55 • Army-Mc. Carthy Hearings. – Mc. Carthy accuses the U. S. Army of “coddling” Communists in the U. S. – Also questions the loyalty and integrity of several top generals. Americans Watching The Army-Mc. Carthy Hearings At A Television Store http: //www 2. jsonline. com/news/2000/y 2 k/ourcentury/images/CENTURY-MCCARTHY 2. jpg • First time many Americans actually witnessed Mc. Carthy’s wild accusations. • Very offensive to the viewing audience, Army officials, and his fellow Senators.

Joseph Mc. Carthy Decline of Mc. Carthyism, 1953 -55 • Army-Mc. Carthy Hearings. – Result: Senate officially condemns Mc. Carthy for “conduct unbecoming a member of the United States Senate. ” – Mc. Carthy’s power would decline until his death in 1957 from alcoholism. Army-Mc. Carthy Hearings http: //cache. viewimages. com/xc/51649986. jpg?

Connection to Literature • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=l. GVl. D zu-_dg • Explain in one paragraph how the Second Red Scare inspired Arthur Miller to write ”The Crucible”.