McCarthy was then seen as brash and temperamental, with little evidence to back up any of his claims, and then his following had died like the hysteria that he had brought with him; this had thus set the stage for Miller's play The Crucible. ... Many innocent people in The Crucible were jailed and eventually killed, ranging from a very devoted and gentle grandmother to a four year old child, much like the wild arrests that were made during the Red scare and period of McCarthy; in both cases, very little evidence was involved in the trials. ... In World War II, Japanese Americans were se...

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Therefore the Japanese could do very little to resist interment. ... Many of these people had very little time to pack up their belongings. ... From a Japanese American woman's perspective she quotes, "we stood helplessly when people, who we thought were our friends, came by and said, 'I'll give you $2 for your stove, $1.50 for your fridge'" "(Hansen 63). ... There was little or no privacy in the barracks and not much outside "(USA). ... The homes they lived in, businesses, and friends they had before the war were gone. ...

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Americans would keep this little fact of mutually assured destruction close to their hearts to keep them sane as frenzy and Red Scare plagued the nation. ... Because of the propaganda created by men like Joseph McCarthy in Washington, Americans fear that even their close friends and neighbors could be secret communist party members, ready to take over at any time. ...

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"4 Chaplin himself in his autobiography describes his reasoning behind the decision: Whether I re-entered that unhappy country or not was of little consequence to me. ... The heinous commission then turns its attention to young Rupert – unable to get his parents to "name names" they threaten the child with never getting to see his parents ever again in order to give up his "parents' friends". ... As such, its hefty message seemed to be delivered a little bit too late in the day to be truly meaningful. ...

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, the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way to please parents, friends and girls was to join up and head towards the fighting. ... In the US, the citizens were a little more reluctant to enrol, caused by not only the appalling casualties in Europe, but also due to the virtual lack of any military tradition in the states", the total amount of reserves being merely 32,000, insufficient even to operate large scale manoeuvres, thus in the US, of the 3,097,000 men recruited, only 517,000 were volunteers. ... Whole streets of friends joining up in "pals" battalions, which, alt...

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