What where the McCarthy hearings about?

Question

Compare and contrast the Crucible to the McCarethy hearings

Answer 1

they are the same

Answer 2

The McCarthy hearings were all about McCarthy's bloated ego.

Do not confuse the drunken rantings of McCarthy with the long and stalwart work of the anti-Communist commissions, which had been doing yeoman work long before the drunken liar McCarthy decided to boost his ego and jump in front of the cameras.

Commissions, like the House Un-American Activities Commission, had been digging into communist infiltration into America for years, finding the facts, determining the size and scope of the Communist Party in the US.

McCarthy, figuring this would get him headlines, jumped into the party very late, and, although he was not incorrect in his assertions that the Departments of State and Defense had communists in them, it was his clownish grandstanding that undermined and delegitimized the whole effort, harming our efforts against the evil that is communism.

The Crucible is a distortion of the truth, Miller being quite sympathetic to communism. The Salem witchcraft trials is more reminiscent of the irrational Democrat hatred of all things Bush.

Answer 3

The crises and the anti-Soviet feeling on the prompt and loopy McCarthy reported that there are communists at u.s. and the military, the authorities and the media have communists in accordance to McCarthy. He purely needs public publicity and he's an unknown senator on the prompt and he received't close his enormous mouth yet might want to not locate evidences by evaluation aledged communists. The Senate ultimately close his enormous mouth.

Answer 4

The McCarthy Hearings investigated people whom Senator McCarthy suspected of what he called "anti-American" activities. These took place during the Cold War climate of the 1950s and McCarthy was later accused of being on a "witch hunt," accusing people - many of them celebrities - of being Communists. America at that time was really paranoid about Communism. He ruined a lot of careers before he was stopped.

You'll have to provide the compare/contrast part yourself!

Answer 5

He was a hero that weeded out some Communist during the cold war. People refer to him as a witch hunter but he did discover many real Communist sympathizers in the US. There needs to be more people like him around to help us keep this country safe.

Answer 6

Just a heads, many of these answerers are giving you Ann Coulters view of McCarthy. I was reading up on this the other day and even the Historians whose facts she was using were saying that she had distorted things they had said. One historian said even though he didn't agree with another historian, at least his opinions dealt in historical facts. Please, do your own research.

Answer 7

Do your own homework!