Witch Hunt In Salem

In Rosalyn Schanzerś “Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem”, a Puritan religion filled Salem takes the Bible literally. The town starts to find witches which causes hysteria to spread across town causing people to accuse friends of witchcraft. Communism’s Red Scare, internment camps, and the Holocaust are just like these witch hunts because they all caused histeria and actions by people that should not have been taken.
McCarthyism is one of the most recent witch-hunts. This witch-hunt was from 1950 to 1956 lead by Joseph McCarthy. Evidence that this was a witch-hunt can be found in the article “The Cold War Museum” where it says “These people on the list were in fact not all communists; some had proven merely to be alcoholics and sexual deviants.” The reason why Mccarthy blamed these innocent people was because he “searched for ways to insure his political success, resorting even to corruption” stated the The Cold War website. These hunts happened mostly

This happened from 1942 to 1946. Some of the evidence of this being a witch-hunt is America falsely accusing the Japanese American ethnic group of being traitors. Evidence of this can be found in the article “Japanese-American Internment” where it states that “ Despite the lack of any concrete evidence, Japanese Americans were suspected of remaining loyal to their ancestral land.” According this document the reason why they were sent to internment camps was because “Anti-Japanese paranoia increased because of a large Japanese presence on the West Coast. In the event of a Japanese invasion of the American mainland, Japanese Americans were feared as a security risk.” The same site states that this happened when “President Roosevelt signed an executive order in February 1942 ordering the relocation of all Americans of Japanese ancestry to concentration camps in the interior of the United