Mass Hysteria
Effects of Mass Hysteria
McCarthyism
Effects of McCarthyism
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Collective delusions of threats that spread rapidly through rumors and/or fear.
What is mass hysteria?
100
Can feed into people's fears causing them to believe what isn't true; "overwhelms logic and justifies its own existence"
What is mass hysteria?
100
Communist
What is the type of government that McCarthyism was against?
100
Term made for the actions of senator McCarthy in the 1950's
What is McCarthyism?
200
Early Modern Period (1480-1700)
What is the most common time period for mass hysteria?
200
The Salem witchtrials, alien abductions, etc.
What are examples of mass hysteria?
200
He accused innocent people of being communist, including the army.
What is the reason for McCarthy's downfall in 1953?
200
the fear of being accused of communism by your own country
What is the red scare?
300
The girls from The Crucible who had mass hysteria (name two)
Who are Abigail Williams, Betty Parris, Ann Putnam, Mercy Lewis, Mary Warren?
300
Hyperventilation, fainting, nausea, stomach pains, phychological/physical stress
What is the symptoms of mass hysteria?
300
Political cartoon for the Washington Post.
What is the first recorded use of the term McCarthyism?
300
People accused of being communist
What is black listed
400
Society
Who/what is effected by mass hysteria?
400
He made them think there were many communist in the US government.
What is the fear that Americans had during the early 1950s due to McCarthyism?
400
Soviet satellite launched in 1957 that led to the space race between America and Russia.
What is Sputnik?
500
Girls
Who more commonly has mass hysteria?
500
Depicts an example of mass hysteria in which "hysterical fear becomes a means of expressing the resentment and anger suppressed by strict Puritan society"
What is The Crucible?
500
1954
What is the year that McCarthy was condemned for no tactics of McCarthyism?
500
Committee made to investigate those disloyal to America.
What is HUAC (House Un American Committee)?
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