In October 1947, the Committee began to subpoena screenwriters, directors, and other professionals about their known or suspected membership in the Communist Party. This was called the “Black List”, also known as the “Hollywood Ten”, they cited the First Amendment, but this tactic failed and they were sentenced to prison for contempt of Congress (Wales and Sanger). The military was also at risk and 83 alleged Communist were discharged, also nearly 3,000 seamen and longshoremen lost their jobs due to this cause (Drummey). Suspected homosexuality was also common cause for being a target for McCarthyism. In many cases simply being subpoenaed was sufficient cause to be fired and blamed for this horrific
In the 1950's, however, people were terrified of the red Communists coming to take over their beloved country. Senator McCarthy was the one taking out other people in the govornment that he suspected to be a communist via inprisonment. The witch trials and McCarthyism started differently as well, for one started with a group of young girls' voodoo practice and the other started when senator McCarthy was trying to win an election and took advantage of the peoples feelings toward the "Red scare." A lot of the evil things McCarthyism did were private and behind closed govornment doors. During the Salem Witch Trials the accused people were forced to make a public confession and be killed in front of their family and friends.
By comparing the key events in terms of opposition like the Assassination of Alexander II in 1881, Blood Sunday and the October manifesto in 1905, the February and October revolution in 1917, and how effectively they were dealt with, then we can come to a judgment on the argument. Stalin’s most intense opposition came at the beginning of his quest to becoming ruler to Russia from 1924 to 1929. Before Lenin passed away from his stroke he had left a testament stating that Stalin was dangerous and should be dismissed also he had chosen Trotsky the leader of Red army as his successor. Stalin was given the position of General sectary of the communist party in 1922 which everyone associated as a dull and unimportant Job. However he managed to manipulate the leftists Zinoviev and Kamenev in the politburo into covering up Lenin’s
America was taking part of what was called the “Red Scare” resulting from the Palmer Raids in 1919 in which 6000 communists were wound up in America. This sense of anti-foreignism was mainly for the fact that communists were nothing but different and Americans were tired of dealing with different nations and at this time Americanism was trying to be found in everyone. One of the ways that this anti-foreignism was manifested was the radical arise of the 1920’s Klu Klux Klan. Unlike the KKK of the 19th century, this Klan wasn’t only anti-African American, but it was anti immigrants, anti-Catholic, and anti-communist and basically anti anything that wasn’t American. Hiram Wesly Evans describes in Document D that the Klan speaks for the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) | * FBI had a strongly anti-communist director, J Edgar Hoover. * In 1947 Truman let him set up the Federal Employee Loyalty Program, which allowed Hoover’s FBI loyalty boards to investigate government employees to see if they were communists. * From 1947 to 1950, around 3 million were investigated. * Nobody was charged with spying. * 212 staff were said to be security risks (communist sympathisers) and were forced out of their jobs.
Miller used the play to represent injustices that were going on at the time such as accusations that had no substantial evidence, an unfair assumption that the accused was guilty until proven innocent, and the tendency of Senator McCarthy to retaliate against any criticism against him an accusation of being a communist sympathizer. Thousands of Americans were accused of being Communists or sympathizers of them during the McCarthy era. Many of these accusations had no substantial evidence to back them up. They were often simply put forth because the accused had differing or leftist, believes and did not simply conform unquestionably to the norm at the time, which was that Communism was the greatest
However, this simple act of trying to track down communists to save the country turned into past experiences our country had already experienced. The new found “McCarthyism” started out as a task to eliminate communist threats in this country, and it ended being much like the witch hunt trials held in 1692. McCarthy let his paranoia get the best of him on the issue of communism and ultimately ruined an entire
Lenin's plan caused much fear in the American people, and became more heightened when radical political activist felt this cause. So this caused the "first red scare" and this would be the first stage for a communist take over. These "activist" were called anarchist and were out to destroy the American government by violence. This resulted in a wave of terroristic violence in 1919, using bombs meant to hurt people near by and to cause fear throughout America itself. The anarchist used the Postal System to send over 20 bombs which were to explode upon opening, however the authorities discovered these bombs before they could detinate, and cause any harm.
After World War II, all of the America was in fear and terror that communism in the face of the Soviet Union could gain world domination, especially since half of Europe was under the influence of Stalin. In connection with this, in 1947, the 33rd U.S. President Harry Truman ordered a review of all government employees. There were many willing to save the country from communists, but the most successful of all was the senator from Wisconsin, Joseph Raymond McCarthy. February 9, 1950, he gave a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia in which he declared that the United States Government was filled with Communists and in the Office of Dean Acheson who was the Secretary of State under Truman, the number had reached 205 people. This event is considered to be
This event led to labor unrest, peasant insurrections, student demonstrations, as well as army and navy mutinies. Although the shooting was not Nicholas II’s fault, he was given the nickname, “ The Bloody Murderer” and stated that he was not going to make any changes for the people. This was the last major event before the Revolution of 1905 officially broke out. New councils created by urban workers in order to better organize strikes were created called Soviets. During this time, Russian cities were dying because all the workers and peasants were focused on rebelling against the government and seizing the land of their landlords, instead of working in the factories and living the life of a peasant or urban worker.