Comparing Events In History To

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in the Salem Witch trials. I guess that was McCarthy’s crucible, to make Americans think that a large amount of Communists worked for the State Department. Luckily we had a good congress and they didn’t let McCarthy’s ideas spread around. This relates to “The Crucible” by how one man tried to gain power by making false accusations. This is like when Parris saw the girls dancing in the woods he assumed that they were practicing witchcraft and that each girl should be punished for there doing.
Another hysteria that was big and probably one of the key moments in history was the Holocaust. This showed one mans ideas to exterminate an ethnic group and the power that he gained from the people in his country. This man was Adolf Hitler the Fascist dictator of many. What he was able to do through his public speeches was remarkable. He was able to tell millions of Germans that the reason why they lost World War I was because of the Jewish people. Many of the people went with his ideas since ...

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they were outspoken anarchists, labor-union advocates, and draft resisters. I think that most of those things are not good and that the government should prosecute people who believe in those things. With being guilty they were also sentenced to death. Then Sacco and Vanzetti appealed to the higher courts. At this point it had created a big international conflict. The verdict didn’t change and they died in the electric chair.
One reason that they were guilty was because the government was overcome by fear and didn’t give equal rights to all of its citizens. I think that the main reason why these two died was because of the ideas that they believed in. There was a time period where many ...

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