The Salem witch hunt and the “Round up of Japanese Americans during World War II” are among the many events that repeats hysteria’s in American History. ... The “Salem witch hunt” and the “Round up of Japanese Americans during WWII” occur at different times but are very similar because they are foils that help create a stage for hysteria.
Even though “The Round up of the Japanese” and the “Salem Witch Trials” are about 226 years apart, they share some parallel characteristics. ... The convicted people from the witch trials were placed in small houses or jails and the Japanese were placed in interment camps. ... If the saying “Give me liberty or give me death” was a moral idea that everyone believed then all the Japanese people would vanish and all of the respected people in Salem would be hanged or pressed to death.
The “Salem Witch Trial” was mostly based on spectral evidence. The citizens in Salem were so afraid of witches that anyone could accuse another person of being a witch anytime they wished. ... In the time of the “Salem Witch Trials” (1692), getting banned from the church was one of the ultimate punishments besides death because most people’s faith in God was very strong.
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