Argumentative Essay On HUAC

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Argumentative Essay In 1938, a committee was formed to find suspected communists in America; this committee was the House of Un-America Activities Committee or HUAC. "The Speaker of the House of Representatives is authorized to appoint a special committee to be composed of seven members for the purpose of conducting an investigation of (1) the extent, character, and object of un-American propaganda activities in the United States, (2) the diffusion within the United States of subversive and un-American propaganda that is instigated from foreign countries or of a domestic origin and attacks the principle of the form of government as guaranteed by the Constitution, and (3) all other questions in relations thereto that would aid Congress in any necessary remedial legislation.(Simkin)" This was not a new concept as this was just another reincarnation of the Fish committee and McCormack-Dickstein committee. Though the political climate wasn’t right for those previous versions, after World War Two, HUAC widely gained support from the American people mostly because of their fear of the...

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