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

2. 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

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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).

13. 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

14. Works Cited
"Cold War." GlobalSecurity.org - Reliable Security Information. Web. 23 Nov
“Fahrenheit 451 in context: The United States in the post war years." It's about possibilities.... yours. Web. 23 Nov
Schwartz, Richard A. "Red Scare, 1950s." Cold War Culture: Media and the Arts, 1945–1990. New York: Facts On File, Inc., American History Online. Facts On File, Inc.
"McCarthy Hearings." Travel & History. Online Highways. Web. 23 Nov

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