Better Dead Than Rad Mc Carthyism. Committee On Un-American Activities. "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller -- CONTEXT -- from 60second Recap® Every Witch Way: Learning From the Infamous Trials of Salem. Check out these resources for teaching about this dark chapter in America's past. The Salem witch trials offer rich fodder for social studies lessons. The following Web sites offer ideas for using the events as a springboard for discussing seventeenth-century society, women's roles, tolerance, justice, and more: Salem Witch Trials Unit This unit for fifth graders presents a synopsis of the events, two dozen simple activities, and a bibliography for teachers and students. The Salem Witch Trials WebQuest On this Web site, kids work in groups of four, playing the role of accused, afflicted, and two judges. Salem Witch Trial Reenactment In this sixty- to ninety-minute lesson, fifth graders play the parts of historical figures from Salem.
Salem Witch Trials: Lesson Plans This Web site provides links to numerous lesson plans for grades 5-12, including a unit on Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, a classic dramatization of the events surrounding the witch trials. How McCarthyism Worked" Mass hysteria has reared its ugly head for as long as humans have existed. Adolf Hitler worked enough people into a frenzy to justify the murder of millions of Jews. Jesus Christ, known by all as peaceful, if controversial, was brutally nailed to a cross because a few high-ranking officials felt threatened by him. Although one would hope that people would learn a lesson or two from the mistakes of the past, it seems that history, as the old cliché goes, is forever doomed to repeat itself.
Enter Senator Joseph McCarthy. While he may not have caused genocide or murdered a prophet, he was able to whip up hysteria in America in the early 1950s. McCarthy's issue of choice? Communism, in simple terms, is an economic system designed to equally benefit everyone in the society. By the '50s, communism wasn't exactly a new worry for the United States. By the time McCarthy won a Senate seat in 1946, World War II was over and the Cold War was beginning.
MPR: Eugene McCarthy, who galvanized a generation of war opponents, dies. Former Democratic Sen. Eugene McCarthy, one of Minnesota's and the country's most influential political figures of the last century, has died. He was 89. His son Michael says McCarthy died in his sleep at the Washington retirement home where he had lived for the past few years. McCarthy served two terms in the U.S. St. Democrats at the time controlled the White House and both houses of Congress. "I don't think it's a qualitative difference. McCarthy was not alone in his anti-war views, but he was the first Democrat willing to take on this powerful president. "Those of us who have raised some questions against the administration and have suggested a challenge are variously labeled as dissident Democrats. Eisele remembered interviewing McCarthy in 1967 about his decision to challenge Johnson. "I think I was the first person to write he was seriously thinking of that, which was hard to believe but was true.
"We're involved, this nation, in what has become a major war. McCarthy lived in St. McCarthyism: Index Page. The Anti-Communist Crusade and the Rise of McCarthyism. McCarthyism PBS. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s America was overwhelmed with concerns about the threat of communism growing in Eastern Europe and China. Capitalizing on those concerns, a young Senator named Joseph McCarthy made a public accusation that more than two hundred “card-carrying” communists had infiltrated the United States government. Though eventually his accusations were proven to be untrue, and he was censured by the Senate for unbecoming conduct, his zealous campaigning ushered in one of the most repressive times in 20th-century American politics.
While the House Un-American Activities Committee had been formed in 1938 as an anti-Communist organ, McCarthy’s accusations heightened the political tensions of the times. Known as McCarthyism, the paranoid hunt for infiltrators was notoriously difficult on writers and entertainers, many of whom were labeled communist sympathizers and were unable to continue working.