Question

McCarthyism was known by some as a “witch hunt” in reference to the Salem Witch Trials in colonial Massachusetts. How can McCarthyism also be viewed as an example of “history repeating itself” in reference to the 1920’s?

Answer 1

McCarthyism was in the 1950ish and was the 2nd red scare. The first one was in the 1920s. A red scare is a fear of communism and communists in America. This being the second hysterical fear of communist infiltration into American shows how history repeated itself and America didn’t learn from the first time it accused innocent people of being communist and ruined their lives because they lost their jobs and we pushed from society

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