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The McCarthy Trials
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The McCarthy Trials
Brianna Buttera
Introduction
Introduction
- United States of America after World War II
- Communism
- Joseph McCarthy
The McCarthy Trials
- How did they start?
- The McCarthy- Army Trials
The McCarthy Trials
The Beginning:
"Enemies from Within " Speech, February 9th, 1950 (National Cable Satellite Corporation).
Going Against the Army:
"Have you no Decency" Speech. McCarthy-Army Trials: Joseph Welch, June, 9th 1954
(Zinn Education Project)
McCarthyism
- What is McCarthyism?
- How did it affect the country?
McCarthyism
Where did the Term Come From?
Cartoon by Herblock, He drew many satirical cartoons for the Washington Post (Library of Congress).
Definition of McCarthyism:
“The practice of publicly accusing government employees of political disloyalty or subversive activities and using unsavoury investigatory methods to prosecute them.” (Pufong)
What Happened to the Country?
The works in the film industry striking for being fired over false communist charge. (Portside)
Connection to The Crucible
Connection to The Crucible
Scene from PCPA's production of The Crucible (photograph taken by Luis Escobar)
Abigail and Joseph McCarthy are similar in the way they act.
A depiction of a Salem witch trial, where one girl is pretending to be possessed (weebly.com)
The people who were accused had their reputations ruined
Girls jeering at a woman that was convicted of witch craft in (photograph take by Thruston Hopkins)
Conclusion
Conclusion
1950's Propaganda poster (history.com)
Works Cited (Information)
Works Cited
Miller, Arthur. The Crucible
Khan Academy Anticommunism in the 1950s (Article). 2015,
www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/postwarera/1950s-america/a/anticommunism-in-the-1950s.
Onion, Amanda, et al. “Joseph McCarthy.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 29 Oct.
2009, www.history.com/topics/cold-war/joseph-mccarthy.
Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries “Communist.” communist_1 Adjective - Definition, Pictures,
Pronunciation and Usage Notes Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com, www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/communist_1?q=communist.
Pufong, Marc-Georges. McCarthyism, Middle Tennessee State University,
www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1061/mccarthyism.
U.S Congress“‘Have You No Sense of Decency?".” U.S. Senate: "Have You No Sense of
Decency?", 12 Dec. 2019, www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Have_you_no_sense_of_decency.htm.
Schrecker, Ellen. What Is McCarthyism? And How Did It Happen? Youtube, TED-Ed, 2017,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N35IugBYH04.
Works Cited (Images)
Block, Herbert. “Herblock's History - Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium
‘Fire!".” "Fire!" - Herblock's History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium Exhibitions - Library of Congress, 16 Oct. 2000, www.loc.gov/exhibits/herblocks-history/fire.html.
Bradford, Wade. “'The Crucible:' Meet Rebecca Nurse.” ThoughtCo,
www.thoughtco.com/the-crucible-character-study-rebecca-nurse-2713519.
Carol A. Stabile is Professor of Women's. “How the Communist Blacklist Shaped the
Entertainment Industry As We Know It.” Portside, portside.org/2018-10-12/how-communist-blacklist-shaped-entertainment-industry-we-know-it.
National Cable Satellite Corporation Senator Joe McCarthy's "Enemies from
Within"
Speech. 2014, www.c-span.org/video/?c4694710%2Fsenator-joe-mccarthys-enemies-within-speech.
Onion, Amanda, et al. “Red Scare.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 1
June 2010,
www.history.com/topics/cold-war/red-scare.
Weebly “Connections to The Crucible.” Red Scare of the 1950's,
theredscare1950s.weebly.com/connections-to-the-crucible.html.
Writer, Brent M. Parker Contributing. “PCPA's 'The Crucible' Is a Powerful Production of a
Classic Play.” Santa Maria Times, 22 Feb. 2018, santamariatimes.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/pcpas-the-crucible-is-a-powerful-production-of-a-classic-play/article_3d49ba1e-ac6b-5299-8a2a-66de31976b80.html.
Zinn Education Project “June 9, 1954: Joseph Welch Confronts Sen. Joseph
McCarthy.” Zinn
Education Project, www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/welch-mccarthy/.