Comparing The Salem Witch Trials And Mccarthyism

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Fear based behavior has occurred in history during the Salem witch trials and McCarthyism. The Salem witch trials of 1692 was contrived by three little girls and led to eradication of unity among the town. A doctor had diagnosed these girls bewitched, and yet they authorized them to prosecute people of the town. “But their trial triggered an astonishing wave of accusations, and the young girls, basking in their sudden notoriety ignited a storm of satanic fear throughout the Massachusetts Bay Colony.” Thus, provoking internal chaos in the town of Salem and arising extensive fear through the townspeople. Furthermore in the 1950s, McCarthyism began making accusations of pro-communist practices in the United States government. Therefore causing