The McCarthy Trials

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  Hello. Money was bringing Terra and I wouldn't be talking

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  about the McCarthy trials.

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  So after World War Two, the fall of communism was

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  fueled by several Americans.

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  This caused the public to believe that there were hundreds

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  of Communists trying to infiltrate the United States government.

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  So what is communism?

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  Communism is a political movement that believes in an economy

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  system in which the state controls the means of producing

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  everything for the people it aims to create in a

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  society in which everyone is treated equally.

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  The American citizens were afraid of the Soviet Union government.

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  Now that was Russia because of these political bullies.

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  And the Soviets have also gained the intelligence of making

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  atomic bombs at this time.

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  This caused the Americans to fear the Soviet Union's because

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  of these beliefs and because they know the Soviets now

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  had, uh, nuclear weapons.

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  This started the period referred to as the Cold War

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  or the Red Scare.

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  During this time, the Americans were trying to find internal

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  security, and they did this through a person named Joseph

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  R. McCarthy.

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  He was a Republican senator from Wisconsin who became one

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  of the primary Communist accusers in the late 19 forties

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  to the middle of 19 fifties, Joseph R.

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  McCarthy was famous for his influence in the McCarthy Charles

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  and his actions created a term known as McCarthyism.

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  This event and term can reflect and connect to several

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  past and present historical bets.

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  Also the's Charles Air, similar to events that transpired in

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  The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller that gives

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  a historical Reagan retelling of the Salem witch trials to

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  begin. I'll be talking about the McCarthy trials themselves.

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  So how did he begin?

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  Beginning event that started the McCarthy trials was when Joseph

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  McCarthy attended the Ohio County Women's Republican Club.

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  At this meeting, Joseph McCarthy made a speech that accused

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  over 200 members of the cough up the government with

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  Communist espionage, according to the History Networks article titled Joseph

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  McCarty. Once these accusations were made, the Senate launched in

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  tens investigation into these claims, but they found no proof

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  that these people were involved in espionage.

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  Therefore, the claims were dismissed.

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  But in 1953 Joseph McCarthy was re elected and he

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  was a chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

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  McCarthy was able to focus the committee's attention, unhinging communists

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  that weren't actually Communists.

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  Forevermore, McCarthy conducted the interrogation is himself.

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  He and his chief counsel.

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  We're known for relentless he boiling and insulting witnesses.

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  This goes against the witnesses.

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  Civil rights, which caused these interrogations is to be extremely

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  unethical. McCarthy had zero evidence to basis accusations off, but

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  no powerful person would go against them.

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  Or they were afraid that they would get a juice

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  of Communist as well, because that was a pattern Joseph

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  McCarthy did.

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  He accused people that tried to go against him.

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  In 1954 McCarthy accused the United States Army of having

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  Communist infiltration in their facilities.

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  This cause the downfall of McCarthy, and here's a lot.

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  This accusation would begin three months televised McCarthy Army hearings

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  and on June 9 1954 the Army's lawyer, Joseph Welch,

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  and one of his attorneys well in one of his

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  journeys were making a case.

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  But this attorney was accused of committed communist espionage, and

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  McCarthy accused this young attorney in the middle of a

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  court hearing.

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  Welch was outraged by McCarthy's erratic and cool behavior, this

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  constant Welsh to say.

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  This line, which was Tele televised on all the televisions

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  in America at this time, let us know.

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  Assassinate this young lad Further Senator, you have done enough.

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  Have you no sense of decency?

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  This was the last time McCarthy was really seen in

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  any government type of business for the son of it,

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  where the Senate was angry with McCarthy over all these

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  investigations, and this gave them an excuse.

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  Just center him.

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  So he was, therefore never seen.

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  And the news ever again to conclude the McCarthy Charles

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  were deferential.

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  The accused Communists first simple of them, lost their jobs.

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  The second subject I will be talking about is McCarthyism.

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  So how did the term McCarthyism come about?

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  According to an article written by Multi George, who phone

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  the term McCarthyism was first seen in in a 19

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  fifties satirical Torches published by The Washington Post.

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  Mr Tune has aimed to make fun and criticize McCarthy.

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  When he first started accusing government officials of Communist SPF,

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  the term eventually transformed to describe the practice of publicly

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  accusing government employees of political disloyalty or subversive activities and

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  using unsavory and busted batory methods to persecute them.

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  This means McCarthy would make baseless accusations that people in

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  the government were Communist he'd make these accusations with no

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  evidence, and he would was also unethical when interrogating the

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  accused people.

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  The McCarthy era was damaging to the government parties that

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  were more help, more left leaning views.

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  For example, the Democratic Party suffered because of McCarthy Penis.

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  Several of the Democratic Party members were accused of being

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  a communist bots.

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  Some of samples of why they may have been accused

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  of being Communists is because they had a multi racial

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  friend group.

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  They were openly against nuclear weapons.

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  They openly disagreed on.

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  The Communist trials that were taking place or date gave

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  indication that they were hopeful a homosexual.

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  These people that were accused would eventually be fired and

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  blacklisted, which means that it was difficult for them to

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  finding new employment.

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  Because of these accusations, you take several years for the

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  Democratic Party to recover.

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  After this McCarthyism spread, though to many other non governmental

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  institutions, this would include prestigious universities, the Hollywood filmmaking industry

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  and car manufacturing companies.

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  This caused the economy to take a hit because the

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  country's largest agent industries were not producing as many products

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  is four okay, employees were fired and out of work.

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  Jingle food the era of McCarthy, nous have almost destroyed

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  the country, for government officials were being accused of communist

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  activities. Oh, and these there was no evidence to support

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  these planes.

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  This movement targeted people with socialist or liberal views, which

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  is against the State of America Constitution.

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  It broke the amendment that a War of freedom of

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  speech. The final subject I'll be talking about is how

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  the McCarthy trials relates to The Crucible.

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  The McCarthy trials and the trials that took place in

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  the play by Arthur Miller are similar in many ways

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  to start off Joseph McCarthy.

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  Abigail Williams are very much a life In the play,

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  Abigail would make bake accusations towards people.

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  Also, she would forge evidence and accused people that went

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  against her.

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  This is evident when Abigail States I I know not

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  a wind.

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  A cold wind is come.

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  Abigail was trying to make the judges believe that Mary

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  Warren is bewitching her and Abigail does this one.

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  Mary tries to expose Abigail's lives.

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  Similarly, Justice McCarthy would accuse people of communism give most

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  evidence or not at all, and he would accuse people

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  that tried to prove me wrong.

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  This was put on display when he accused a young

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  a journey of having Communist times.

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  McCarthy said this because the eternity brought forward evidence that

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  discredited because thus our Biggio and McCarthy our life or

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  they make baseless and unethical accusations.

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  Furthermore, in The Crucible, which child's ruin several innocent people's

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  reputations? Once the people falsely accused confessed to conspiring with

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  the double, the whole town knew about it.

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  This is why John Proctor, the protagonist, did not want

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  to confess.

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  He did not want to lose his reputation.

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  Any states, because it is my name, because I cannot

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  have another in my life.

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  John Doctor knows that if he confesses, his reputation would

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  be ruined for the rest of his life.

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  So we'd rather die lying on the stand.

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  Similar in the McCarthy trials, many of the government officials

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  got a bad reputation because they allegedly conspired with Communist.

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  Essentially, the government officials were accused, and then they were

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  usually fired.

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  Then they would not find jobs because their reputation to

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  be communists.

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  These claims were false, though, and it created a negative

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  reputation for several people.

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  Thus, the events that transpired in the Crucible and during

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  the McCarthy trials are similar because people were falsely accused

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  and they had their reputations ruined.

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  In conclusion, the McCarthy Charles was an unethical phenomenon that

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  took place in the 19 fifties in the United States.

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  These channels also pray that the term known as McCarthyism,

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  which describe what Joseph McCarthy was doing and how would

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  it have to be upon me in the coffee trials

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  were also very similar to the trials that took place

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  in Crucible.

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  These trials were known as the modern day, uh, witch

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  hunts, which were almost identical.

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  Do the seal of which trial events.

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  In these two tragic events, the public believe what the

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  government said without raising any questions.

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  Several of these issues could have been prevented if more

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  people would have crushed the balloon of the things up

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  the accusers made.

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  Thank you so much for listening to my presentation on

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  the McCarthy trials.

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  Here are the sources for the information that I spoke

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  about today.

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  And here are this the sites to the images that

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  I used again, Thank you so much for listening and

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  have a great day