The Rise of Joseph McCarthy

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This story-lecture teaches the story of Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism during the Red Scare in the early years of the Cold War that resulted in a loss of civil liberties and widespread fear and paranoia. Teaching the rise and call of McCarthy, from this speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, claiming to have a list of 205 communists in the State Department, his many phony claims, the HUAC (House of UnAmerican Activities Committee), Hollywood 10, Truman's Loyalty Board, and the McCarthy-Army Hearings that brought about his swift fall from grace.
For teachers and homeschool parents, I have resources that go with this lesson that include interactive notesheets, a quick quiz, and an extension lesson that has students analyze primary sources, answer quick questions, and then write a letter to a loved as if they lived through the Dust Bowl and migrated to California. It's engaging, fosters critical thinking, and has built in supports to help ensure students are successful but still challenged. There are answer keys for everything.
I hope you enjoy it,
dan
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[@mikaylasmith811]

This is perfect for tomorrow's lesson on the Red Scare and McCarthyism. Thank you so much!

[@historyforhumans905]

Just in time! Glad you enjoyed it. :)

[@BGNOLA]

It wasn't a "scare"; there really were reds.

[@gstrummer]

Great stuff. Love this.

[@historyforhumans905]

Thanks Coleman!

[@clone0332]

Where did the get the Ronald Reagan quote at 6:14 from?

[@historyforhumans905]

From LOC- look up primary source + Reagan testimony before HUAC. Its a great statement on American democracy and civil liberties :)

[@reinfeddedewolff5565]

🌟THANK YOU VERY MUCH👏 FOR THIS 🇺🇲 US HISTORY🌟PRESENTATION AS SUCH🇺🇲.

[@historyforhumans905]

Very welcome!

[@chrisashleylewer5914]

Some great zingers in there!

[@historyforhumans905]

History like a hammer!

[@marktaylor4496]

Sounds like trump and his gang on the Hill today.

[@michaelgriffith5566]

This is a very misleading, one-sided video. Viewers should read the other side of the story. McCarthy was not a demagogue. Read M. Stanton Evans' book BLACKLISTED BY HISTORY.

[@historyforhumans905]

He was indeed a dangerous demagogue and a scoundrel. In the video I do cover how there were also Soviet spies that had infiltrated some high levels of government but it does not change the fact that McCarthy was a bombastic and reckless media hound that did not represent American ideals. Thats the opinion of the author and general history. If you can look at his actions and give a thumbs up- thats your prerogative.

[@pinochetrevivalist7374]

Agreed. Demagogue? No more than very many politicians today. McCarthy was at least right about communist infiltration of the US government as should be painfully obvious in hindsight in light of the world we now live in in the west. People who oppose the prevailing narrative are smeared and lose their jobs and the courts are weaponized to railroad dissidents of the globalist tyranny agenda. Our monuments are being destroyed and our history is rewritten or memory holed. Wokism is the state ideology today and it is Marxism re-engineered for the 21st century by communists controlling our institutions and media.

[@twown]

You lost me at "incredulous accusations." An accusation cannot be incredulous. Only people can believe or disbelieve.

[@historyforhumans905]

Hence my commentary. Most historians find the accusations I was referring to incredulous.

[@twown]

@@historyforhumans905 No. You're still saying that the accusations themselves are incredulous (in the eyes of the historians). That's wrong. The historians are incredulous over the accusations. Only people can be incredulous. You can't FIND accusations to be incredulous. That's like finding accusations to be surprised. Accusations can't be surprised. They can only be surprising. PEOPLE are surprised. Am I making sense? I'm trying to help.

[@travisbickle9357]

@@twown ​ @twown Oh jeez, semantics. Lighten up, Francis.