The Cold War: Fahrenheit 451

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The Cold War Fahrenheit 451

• By
• Anthony Alex
• Tiffany Dharia
• Anthony Gilgur
• Aline Naroditsky

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Cold War

• September 23, 1948
• President Harry Truman
• Atomic Device
• Stand-off
• America vs. Soviet Union
• Both countries delayed fighting
• Afraid of outcome
• High Tension

VS
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Cold War

• Lived under constant threat
• Communism domination
• Nuclear destruction
• Home fall-out shelters
• Gas masks
• Door to door
• Nuclear anxiety
• Deep into American culture

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Cold War

• Technological Advances
• Computers
• Bomb
• Airplane
• Ballistic Missiles
• Makes Man into Machine

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McCarthy

• American Politician
• Republican Senator
• Criticized politicians with weak standpoints
• Never questioned
• Interrogated U.S. army and politicians
• lost popularity
• Chairman of Government Committee on Operations of
  the Senate
• FBI helped McCarthy

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McCarthyism

• Introduced on February 9, 1950
• Wheeling, WV
• Higher government was communist
• Criticized politicians who had a weak standpoint
• Continued for the duration of the war
• Witch- Hunt caused liberals to leave

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Red Scare

• Politically repressive periods
• Limited Freedoms expression, political
  activism, and press
• Fueled by charges of communism
• Communist accusations
• Government officials, political figures,
  teachers, and writers
• Better society with freedom, justice, and
  dignified work

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Red Scare (continued)

• Left-wing views showed communism
• Communists permeated social institutions
• Governments, educational systems, entertainment
  industry
• House Committee on Un-American Activities made
  charges

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Red Scare (continued)

• 1951, government convicts Julius and Ethel
  Rosenberg for espionage
• Claiming they delivered atomic bomb secrets
• 1953, executed after international protest

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Relationships of McCarthyism to Fahrenheit 451

• How many of you are there?
• Thousands on the road, the abandoned
  rail-tracks, tonight, bums on the outside,
  libraries inside. It wasnt planned, at first
  (153).
• Bradbury relates to results of McCarthyism
• Many liberals left American politics
• Like the intellectuals in the novel

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Relationships of the Red Scare to Fahrenheit 451

• Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw
  the way things were going, a long time back. I
  said nothing. Im one of the innocents who could
  have spoken up and out when no one would listen
  to the guilty, but I did not speak and thus
  became guilty myself (84).
• People afraid of government
• Did not want to show thought
• In case of accusation

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Relationships of the Red Scare to Fahrenheit 451
(continued)

• A few crackpots with verses in their heads cant
  touch them, and they know it and we know it
  everyone knows it. So long as the vast population
  doesnt wander about quoting the Magna Carta and
  the Consitution, its all right. The firemen were
  enough to check that, now and then. No, the
  cities dont bother us (156).

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Relationships of the Red Scare to Fahrenheit 451
(continued)

• Radicals kept shut
• No publicized thought
• No communism
• No change in society
• Government does not worry

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Works Cited (continued)

• Latham, Earl. The Communist Controversy in
  Washington From the New Deal to McCarthy
  Cambridge Massachusetts, 1966. Print.
• Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451 Ballantine Books
  New York, 1953. Print
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