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McCarthy Trials

McCarthy Trials. Senator Joseph McCarthy. Mc·Car·thy·ism (m - kär th - z m). n. 1. The practice of publicizing accusations of political disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence. The coining of an expression. World events which gave birth to this fear:

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McCarthy Trials

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  1. McCarthyTrials Senator Joseph McCarthy

  2. Mc·Car·thy·ism (m -kärth - z m). n. 1. The practice of publicizing accusations of political disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence. The coining of an expression

  3. World events which gave birth to this fear: Bolshevik Revolution Soviet bloc post WW2 China – Mao Korean War First Red Scare 1917 - 20

  4. The Second Red Scare1950 to 1954

  5. Suspected communists came under investigation before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) anti-communist investigations were carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under Director J. Edgar Hoover. An official policy

  6. Roosevelt’s New Deal Women’s suffrage laws Child labour laws RED PLOTS Attacking domestic policy

  7. Public health

  8. Lincoln Day, February 9, 1950, Mc Carthy made a speech to the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia. He produced a piece of paper which he claimed contained a list of known Communists working for the State Department. The speech

  9. The $64 question

  10. "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party of the United States?" The right to free speech?

  11. Charlie Chaplin - actor Langston Hughes- poet Irwin Shaw- writer Arthur Miller - playwright Linus Paulin – nobel prize winner Elmer Bernstein - composer The accused

  12. 1952

  13. What are the vestiges of this period? Were lessons learnt? And today..?

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