McCarthyism and America's Red Scare

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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How post-war America became so paranoid about Communists, they organised show trials and exiled enemies of the state just like the Communists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to We Are History.
0:09.8	This is the most serious history podcast on the worldwide webnet.
0:14.8	Oh yeah, you'll basically get a PhD from listening to this.
0:17.5	I'm John O'Farrell.
0:18.6	And I'm Angela Barnes.
0:19.8	And we're just two people very interested
0:22.6	in history and we're going to be talking about various backwaters of history that interest us,
0:26.9	amuse us, think are worth discussing for 40 minutes or so. If you want to contact us, say,
0:33.6	you can contact us on the old social media on the the worldwide web. Twitter at We Are HistoryPod.
0:39.4	Yes.
0:39.8	Or same on Instagram.
0:41.1	We are History Pod.
0:42.1	Or you can email us.
0:43.4	We are History at...
0:44.9	No.
0:45.3	What is it, John?
0:45.9	We are HistoryPod at Gmail.com.
0:49.0	Or you can write a letter to number two, The Muse.
0:52.8	No, don't write a letter.
0:54.1	Oh, dear, anyone would think we're old, John.
0:55.7	They're ridiculous.
0:57.0	Anyway, we remember most of the things we're talking about.
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