History

FOLLOW INSTRUCTION AND ANSWER PROMP CORRECTLY

Links you will need to watch to answer the prompt:
1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isU81OjYLwc
2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N35IugBYH04

INSTRUCTIONS:
In a minimum 250 word response (maximum 400), please answer the following prompt question based on the materials you have watched/read in this module.

PROMPT:
In what ways did Joseph McCarthy help transform fears about the possible existence of communist threats on home soil into a full blown hysteria that culminated in the targeting of thousands of Americans as possible subversives? How did his baseless accusations and tactics influence later periods of American life and politics?