The way many events are portrayed in the world today, even if the funny stories and good news aren't necessarily true. We need to go beyond the news and find the real facts of what happened before we jump to conclusions and panic. As with all popular culture, people believe what the news tells them, whether it is true or not, it is vital that the true facts are provided to prevent mass hysteria events such as the Salem witch trials and the crime crisis. Cuban missiles. The Salem witch trials in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" and the Cuban Missile Crisis are both great examples of widespread panic leading to mass hysteria, major events of chaos in history, and two situations that were ultimately resolved regardless of whether the outcome was good or bad. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the Salem Witch Trials are two examples of mass hysteria in history. For starters, the United States had never had a communist country near its borders and with the Soviet Union building nuclear launch sites in Cuba “the imminent threat of nuclear war had never seemed so close to home” ( McConnell 13). In the Salem witch trials the people of Salem had never had to deal with any cases of the devil in their town until that point, when the girls of the town began to claim that they had been bewitched. Many of the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Salem Witch Trials could have been completely avoided if there had been more honest people at the time. If the girls of Salem had admitted that they were not possessed by Lucifer and that they were only pretending to get revenge on someone, there would never have been the Salem witch trials and innocent people would not have been hanged. If the governments of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba had been honest with each other during and before the Cuban Missile Crisis, there is a strong possibility that none of this would have ever happened. To conclude, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Salem Witch Trials are two obvious mass hysteria events in history. The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Salem Witch Trials had very in-depth stories about their causes and also what really happened. The Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest thing the world has ever had to a nuclear war.