Essays on Red Scare

Witch hunts are born in times of mass panic or anxiety, often when people mix hysteria with personal beliefs so that they can victimize, scapegoat, or otherwise blame they look down on. The Lavender Scare of the 1950’s is a textbook example. Throughout the 1950’s,…

Introduction Joseph L. Locke, in The American Yawp proclaimed on page 271 within the introduction “On February 22, 1946, less than a year after the war, the charge d’affaires of the U.S embassy in Moscow, George Kennan sent a famously lengthy telegram, – literally referred…

Crucible Social Commentary The crucible was a wonderful piece written by Arthur Miller about the Salem witch trials. However, Arthur Miller never intended for the play to be solely about witches and magic. Arthur Miller wrote the crucible for something much bigger, but not at…

Identification and Evaluation of Sources The focus of this investigation are going to be “To What Extent did the New Order Regime promote the panic in Indonesia?” and can analyse the degree of to that the most aspects of panic phobic neurosis were expressed within…

America Fears Communist Infiltration After World War ll Americans were afraid of communism before World War ll. Once the Great Depression hit the nation, people were still afraid of communism but feeding your family took precedence. During World War ll people were more afraid of…

Witch Hunt In today’s society when someone gets sick we don’t blame it on sorcery or witches. This wasn’t the case in 1692. In Salem Village, Massachusetts two girls by the name of Betty Parris who was the daughter of the town’s reverend Samuel Parris,…

The Red Scare is a way of referring to the fear that Americans suffered due to the rise of communism. It was divided into two phases, the first one took place during the Revolution of 1917; and the second Red Scare occurred at the beginning…