The Cold War: Fahrenheit 451 By Anthony Alex Tiffany Dharia Anthony Gilgur Aline Naroditsky

VS Cold War September 23, 1948 Stand-off America vs. Soviet Union President Harry Truman Atomic Device Stand-off America vs. Soviet Union Both countries delayed fighting Afraid of outcome High Tension VS

Cold War Lived under constant threat Home fall-out shelters Gas masks Communism domination Nuclear destruction Home fall-out shelters Gas masks Door to door Nuclear anxiety Deep into American culture

Cold War Technological Advances Computers Bomb Airplane Ballistic Missiles Makes Man into Machine

McCarthy American Politician Republican Senator Criticized politicians with weak standpoints Never questioned Interrogated U.S. army and politicians lost popularity Chairman of Government Committee on Operations of the Senate FBI helped McCarthy

McCarthyism Introduced on February 9, 1950 Wheeling, WV Higher government was communist Criticized politicians who had a weak standpoint Continued for the duration of the war Witch- Hunt caused liberals to leave

Red Scare Politically repressive periods Limited Freedoms: expression, political activism, and press Fueled by charges of communism Communist accusations Government officials, political figures, teachers, and writers Better society with freedom, justice, and dignified work

Red Scare (continued) Left-wing views showed communism Communists permeated social institutions Governments, educational systems, entertainment industry House Committee on Un-American Activities made charges

Red Scare (continued) 1951, government convicts Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage Claiming they delivered atomic bomb secrets 1953, executed after international protest

Relationships of McCarthyism to Fahrenheit 451 “How many of you are there?” “Thousands on the road, the abandoned rail-tracks, tonight, bums on the outside, libraries inside. It wasn’t planned, at first” (153). Bradbury relates to results of McCarthyism Many liberals left American politics Like the intellectuals in the novel

Relationships of the Red Scare to Fahrenheit 451 “Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I’m one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the ‘guilty,’ but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself” (84). People afraid of government Did not want to show thought In case of accusation

Relationships of the Red Scare to Fahrenheit 451 (continued) “A few crackpots with verses in their heads can’t touch them, and they know it and we know it; everyone knows it. So long as the vast population doesn’t wander about quoting the Magna Carta and the Consitution, it’s all right. The firemen were enough to check that, now and then. No, the cities don’t bother us” (156).

Relationships of the Red Scare to Fahrenheit 451 (continued) Radicals kept shut No publicized thought No communism No change in society Government does not worry

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Works Cited (continued) Latham, Earl. The Communist Controversy in Washington: From the New Deal to McCarthy Cambridge: Massachusetts, 1966. Print. Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451 Ballantine Books: New York, 1953. Print