How Did Mccarthyism Impact Politics

Lead by Senator Joe McCarthy, this modern witch hunt for communism ruined lives and spread lies, with the initial victims being the disliked, the outsiders. One of the first of those blacklisted was Owen Lattimore. He was outspoken about his unpopular liberal views and so it was easy for McCarthy to shift blame and suspicion towards him (Victims of McCarthyism). McCarthy played off the existing fear of communism left behind by World War II to gain support for his lagging political career by fighting a problem that did not really exist. As in The Crucible, people easily accepted that Lattimore and others like him were to blame, in this case for being communist.

While mccarthyism was on the rise citizens of United states were in fear and fearing it cause a public panic president Harry S. Truman got involved too in order to get rid of communism and he established a federal loyalty security program on March 21 1947 which was basically set up a loyalty check for federal workers If there were any reasonable ground on why people suspected that the colleagues they were working with was a communist supporter they would be fired from their jobs. There was a loyalty review board that was set up to deal with employees appel. The next month as Joseph Mccarthy claimed there were 205 communist there was no proof so many government worker including president Dwight Eisenhower disagreed and were not supportive of Joseph Mccarthy tactics. The rise of McCarthyism really started when Joseph Mccarthy became in charge of the Government operations which allowed Joseph Mccarthy to run even more expensive investigations than before which led to many citizens lives be ruined as loyalty review board many were found guilty for unreasonable reasons. The influence of mccarthyism was so wide spread out that even hollywood workers, actors and actress were accused of being favourable about mccarthyism.

Suspiciously, eight and a half minute of a recording was missing, potentially making it impossible to uncover all of the evidence. This was the tragedy of the Watergate Scandal. One of the tapes, called “Smoking Gun” confirms Nixon had yielded justice. For Nixon violated the law by trying to cover up the investigation yet again, leading to three articles of impeachment.

They would create slogans saying “Better dead than red.” Communism changed the way people acted around others in the 1960’s. America’s citizens were probably very afraid because they didn’t want anyone to mistakenly identify them as a communist. This made people begin to turn on each other especially in the film industry.

In order to better understand the correlation between The Crucible and to Joseph McCarthy’s claims, we must better understand the accusations of McCarthy. Joseph McCarthy took on an aggressive campaign towards communism, he made several accusations that government workers were secretly communist. Although he never proved these accusations he provoked hysteria and paranoia which led to negative impact on politics and diplomacy. Soon after, McCarthyism became a term to describe accusing without evidence.

,” the purpose is to justify his reason for shaming American society for the anti-communist trials by arguing that the blame was paranoia driving an individual to hysteria, often leading to bringing out the worse from within. Miller demonstrates a series of rhetorical strategies throughout the article in order to help convince an audience of his argument of paranoia leads up to distrust and chaos around a community. Miller begins the article with a series of specific verbs in order to layout a logical and convincing reasoning of why he was driven to expose the idea of paranoia being the one to commence the misshapen in society with all the trails. He describes on how “paralyzed a whole generation” was due to Communist paranoia during the era of John McCarthy (Miller 1). With the use of the verb “paralyzed”, Miller creates a negative connotation that the audience can interpret to a sorrow feeling.

Roosevelt used fear in his speech, and it only caused for Americans to discriminate and seclude against Japanese Americans, by sending them to concentration camps and taking any of their belongings. In Miller's play The Crucible, the use of fear only caused for many people to accuse each other of witchcraft, be sent to court, imprisoned, and hanged. The use of fear in motivating an audience should never be used because it only causes for irrational decisions to be made as well as many unjustful decisions as

The crucible is defined as a severe trial of test, which not only happened in Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, but also in Miller's life. Arthur Miller wanted The Crucible to symbolize McCarthyism. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s McCarthyism was prominent in America and is known as the paranoid hunt for infiltrators who were communist sympathizers. Writers and entertainers were mainly targeted because they have a lot of influence in society and were used an example. Targeting writers and entertainers showed the people that the government wouldn't sympathize with anyone who supported communism and shook fear into the town.

Communism, a type of government that allows the government to control a majority of the aspects in your life, carried on through the 1940s all the way through the 1950s. This form of government contributed to the Red Scare, a surreal fear among many Americans. It stood as a polar opposite way of living than the typical American capitalist way of life of America's capitalist way of life. Due to the similar events between the Crucible, a play “by Arthur Miller and the fear of communism created by Senator McCarthy during the 1950s”(Maierhofer, 361). The Crucible acts as an Allegorical tale of the events that occurred in America during the 1950s.

His extreme ideology made him a good target for the House Un-American Activities Committee to make an example of. Seeger was blacklisted and could not get work for years. One thing that was a constant over the years was that Seeger was playing “This Land is your Land” throughout this time. This is when it became his signature song that people associated with him. Seeger started to get work again in the 1960s and then began a river cleaning movement that made him popular once again.

Sending his forces to stop the fighting, many of his officials were working for Roosevelt. On August 19, he and his fellow fighters, fought for Mossadegh to resign. This is how America during the Cold War era overthrew Iran. “All knew they had changed the course of Iranian history (128).” This was not really a success because we invaded their territory because the British told America that Mossadegh was a communist and was not really clear as to why they needed American help.

A sympathizer of the Ku Klux Klan, Rankin was a leading disenfranchiser of blacks for decades. Rankin opposed allowing black soldiers fighting in the Second World War to vote; stated that Americans lost battles because of the cowardice of black soldiers; proposed prohibiting interracial marriage; and deliberately tried to exclude black veterans from the GI Bill. Rankin was also an avowed anti-Semite and Japanophobe. He proposed incarcerating all Japanese-Americans in camps, and quietly threatened American Jews with an American Holocaust, saying that Jews “have been run out of practically every country in Europe in the years gone by, and if they keep stirring race trouble in this country and trying to force their communistic program on the Christian people of America, there is no telling what will happen to them here.”

. In my view, the author is correct since people have been known to abuse their power, especially when they are in a position of power like a presidential candidate. More specifically, I believe that people convince others into following them and try to force their beliefs onto others, regardless of those who don’t share the same opinion. This can be seen in the lines “He used his vow to torture terrorism suspects as an applause line at a Las Vegas rally Monday night … And when a protester was ejected from the rally, Trump said, “I’d like to punch him in the face.””. This quote shows how some people don’t care about other people or their opinions if it gets in the way of their goals.

“charges and countercharges about the spy accusations soon filled the air. Defenders of Hiss, such as Secretary of State Dean Acheson, declared that President Truman’s opponents were making a sacrificial lamb out of Hiss. Truman himself declared that HUAC was using “red herrings” to defame Hiss,” "Alger Hiss Convicted of Perjury." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web.

Additionally, Franklin Delano Roosevelt found personal and professional success when he moved on to Washington politics. He advanced on personal relationships, as he was seen at notable parties, where women found him a very attractive man. FDR developed a relationship with