have any concrete facts, but based everything he said about others on gossip. He made up lies against people he wanted to be accused of communism. McCarthy claimed, "he had the names of two-hundred and five persons in the U.S. State Department who were members of the communist party"(Martine 8). McCarthy's lists of people who were communists became to be known as his blacklists. Just like in "The Crucible", where there was such a fear of witchcraft, McCarthy created a fear of communism. "The nightmares of many Americans thus came true-there were witches after all, and some of them were our neighbors"(Martine 9). This shows just how afraid the American society was of another case like the Salem witch trials. In both the cases, something that had started off from a small suspicion had now bec
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