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At the end of World War I in 1918, the American People went wild with their desperation to erase the horrors of wartime.
It was a decade of decadence, excess, bootlegged liquor, flapper girls, and big money.
However, big spending can only happen for so long...
"Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the gambling tables, the players were so empty, so tired, secretly hoping to vanish together into sleep and ... maybe wake on a very distant morning and hear nothing, whatever, no shouting or crooning, find all things changed."
In October of 1929, the stock market crashed in what was the worst economic disaster still in our nation's history. This sparked the Great Depression, wherein nearly 12 million Americans (25% of the population at the time) was unemployed.
This spawned not only a period of extreme economic deprivation, but created a national hopelessness state of mind.
The beginnings of WW2 started with Hitler's ascension to Chancellor in 1933, but America did not involve themselves in WW2 until a direct attack by Japanese forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in December 1941.
The war lasted another 4 years with a total of over 405,000 American deaths.
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In some ways, the invention of the atomic bomb fueled this anxiety - the question persisted: when will be be blown up?
Schools regularly held air raid drills and the threat of Communist spies led to wild accusations of espionage based on rumors.
The author of "The Crucible" - Arthur Miller - was himself accused of sympathizing with the Communist cause. People accused as such were often looked at as traitors and many of them lost their jobs, even if the accusations came with little or no backing evidence.
Miller wrote his play about the Salem Witch Trials, and compared it to the Red Scare and McCarthyism.