McCarthyism & Red Scare

McCarthyism & Red Scare

Current Events & Pop Culture

Available to teachers only as part of the Teaching Cold War: McCarthyism & Red Scare Teacher Pass


Teaching Cold War: McCarthyism & Red Scare Teacher Pass includes:

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Sample of Current Events & Pop Culture


Who promoted Hasan?

A writer for The Washington Post asks the same question Joseph McCarthy asked fifty years ago, but referring to the Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan, who murdered 13 people at Fort Hood in November 2009.