iGCSE enrichment – The Second Red Scare / McCarthyism – Is this tomorrow?

Is-This-Tomorrow-005-1200x1054If you click here you will get to the infamous “Is this tomorrow” cartoon in full. It is not subtle stuff to our modern eyes, and sums up the paranoia and feat of the Red Scare in 1940s / 1950s USA perfectly.

It was published in 1947, and the inside cover provides this dire statement:

“The average American is prone to say, “It can’t happen here.”  Millions of people in other countries used to say the same thing…. Today they are dead – or living in Communist slavery.  It must not happen here!”

Have a look for yourself.

Mr Kydd.

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