1. Directions: 1) Copy the sentence
Directions: 1) Copy the sentence. 2) Guess the meaning of the underlined word. 3) Correct the errors. 4) Make up your own sentence that uses the word in bold.
Before the fight the 2 wrestler’s vituperated each other with statements like, He’s a weak ninny and I’ll take that fat loser down with my pinky toe.
assaulted c. praised
described d. angered

2. Coming Up Next week Next next week After that Monday = Review
Tuesday = The Crucible test
Wed – Fri= writing speech for video
Next next week
Mon – Tue = test prep
Wed – Fri = EOC
After that
Make video
Final exam = periods of American Lit

3. Agenda Discuss reputation (again) Mini lesson on McCarthyism
Analyze p
If time
Work on homework (pgs )
Work on extra credit (pgs )

4. Reputation How do you feel about John Proctor’s decision?
What is the role of reputation in The Crucible?
How/when does it help?
How/when does it hurt?
Who/how/when did it motivate?

5. Communism
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs

6. The Second Red Scare (1950s)

7. Paranoia
After World War II, the Soviet Union gobbled up Eastern Europe. For the first time, the Soviet Union and Communism were world powers.

8. Paranoia
There were small groups of communist supporters in the U.S. A fear spread that these Americans might engage in subversive (secret, anti-government) activities

9. Paranoia
The Republican party, in particular, more heavily made up of the wealthy and conservative Americans, led the attacks on these subversives

10. Early Hunts for Subversives
Truman, a democratic president, feared losing office if he was seen as ‘weak’ on communism
He set up Loyalty Review Boards, which reviewed government employees in order to remove/fire subversives

11. Early Hunts for Subversives
The House of Representatives set up a committee (the House Un-American Activities Committee or HUAC) to find and root out subversives.
They did not just search in the government. For example, famously, they held hearings to find subversives in Hollywood.

13. Paranoia  Hysteria
A number of events pushed the fear of communism to absurd heights

14. Paranoia  Hysteria 1949 Spy cases!!! China fell to Communism
Soviets get the atom bomb
Spy cases!!!
Alger Hiss  accused of smuggling secret American documents to the Soviets
The Rosenbergs  couple accused of selling the atom bomb plans to the Soviets
Executed!

15. Witch Hunts Joe McCarthy Republican senator from Wisconsin
Felt he was unlikely to win reelection
Decided to use fear of communism to boost his career

16. Witch Hunts McCarthyism
McCarthy went on a rampage, announcing that the government was stuffed with ‘reds’
Made claims that he had inside knowledge and proof (for example, he’d say ‘I have a list of 205 people in the government who are members of the communist party’, but then would refuse to produce the names.
Senators, when speaking in the senate, are immune from the charge of slander (knowingly telling lies to hurt another person’s reputation)

17. Witch Hunts Successful strategy
McCarthy won reelection and became famous
However, when he accused the army of having tons of communist subversives, and called hearings on this issue, army officials blasted McCarthy and burst his imaginary bubble. He became a national disgrace

19. Impact of the Red Scare on American People
bomb shelters in suburbia
Duck and cover drills in schools
Demand for conformity (doing the same thing everyone else is doing) to prove loyalty
Same clothes, same haircut, same lifestyle and goals, etc.

20. Hansen. Name ________________________________ U. S. History
Hansen Name ________________________________ U.S. History The Second Red Scare (the 1950s)
Paranoia
After World War II, the Soviet Union ___________________. For the first time, the Soviet Union and Communism ______________ ____________________________________.
There were small groups _______________________________ ___________ . A fear spread that these Americans might engage in subversive (______________________) activities
_______________________________________ more heavily made up of the ________________________________ Americans, _____________________ on these subversives
Early Hunts for Subversives
___________, a democratic president, feared losing office if he was _________________________________________________
He set up __________________________, which reviewed government employees in order to _________________________
The House of Representatives set up a committee (the ________ __________________________________ or HUAC) to find and _____________ subversives.
They did not just search in the government. For example, _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________
Blacklists - _____________________________________ _______________________________________________
Robin Hood?
Paranoia  Hysteria
A number of events pushed the ___________________________________
1949
______fell to Communism
_________ get the atom bomb
Spy cases!!!
Alger Hiss  accused of _________________________ ______________________________________________
The Rosenbergs  couple _________________________ _______________________________________________
_____________!
Witch Hunts
Joe McCarthy
_______________________________________________
Felt he was unlikely to win reelection
Decided to use _________________________________ ______________________________________________
McCarthyism
McCarthy went on a rampage, announcing that the government was ______________________’
Made claims that he had __________________________ ________________ (for example, he’d say ‘I have a list of _____________________________ who are members of the communist party’, but then would _______________ ________________________________________.
Senators, when speaking in the senate, are immune from ___________________________ (knowingly telling lies to hurt another ___________________________)
Successful strategy?
McCarthy _______________________________________
However, when he _________________________ of having tons of communist subversives, and called hearings on this issue, army officials blasted McCarthy and ______ _____________________ . He became a _____________.
Impact of the Red Scare on the American People
_________________in suburbia
______________drills in schools
Demand for conformity (_____________ same thing ________________is doing) to __________________________
Same clothes, __________, same lifestyle and goals, etc.

21. Parallels? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkHzURumycM
Fear of Communism = ?
McCarthy = ?
Truman = ?
HUAC = ?

22. Time to Work
Pgs
Read
Find 3+ rhetorical devices
Find ethos, pathos, logos
Answer questions
Pgs
Pgs (optional extra credit)
Due 5/4
Must annotate

23. Wrap What did you learn today? What is Required for class tomorrow?
Do you have any questions you want to Ask?
Please Put up and Pick up.