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Joseph McCarthy capitalized on the nation's fear of communist subversion. McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. More than 2,000 government employees lost their jobs as a result of his investigations.
Joseph McCarthy capitalized on the nation's fear of communist subversion. McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. More than 2,000 government employees lost their jobs as a result of his investigations.
Joseph McCarthy capitalized on the nation's fear of communist subversion. McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. More than 2,000 government employees lost their jobs as a result of his investigations.
Red scare: Hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in
the U.S. became known as the Red Scare. (Communists were often referred to as Reds for their allegiance to the red Soviet flag.)
Red scared led to a national witch-hunt for suspected
communist supporters, which were later lead by Joseph McCarthy and was the leader behind philosophy of McCarthyism
Joseph McCarthy became a symbol of this epidemic
He capitalized on the nations fear of communist subversion within the American society and instigated this anxiety McCarthyismwasthepracticeofattemptingtominimizethethreatof communismbyaccusinganddetainingsuspectsdeemedtobeasecuritythreat ordisloyaltotheUnitedStatesMcCarthyism is the practice of
making accusations of subversion or treason without proper
regard for evidence. Investigationsrangedfromthefederalgovernment(especiallytheState Department),toHollywood,tothegeneralAmericanpublic
He spent almost five years trying to expose communists and those who had allied with the Soviet Union February 1950: McCarthy gave a speech in Ohio Womens Republic Club and claimed there were 205 known members of the Communist Party who were working and shaping the policy of the State Department and he had
the list of people to back the claims he rose to national
prominence after this speech was made After that speech he conducted investigations, despite the disapproval from many of his Democratic and Republican colleagues, but found no proof of such activities happening within the State Department In 1953, after his second term as senator, he was put in charge of the Committee on Government Operations
which allowed him to launch even more expansive
investigations Hearing after hearing, he aggressively interrogates
witnesses in what many came to perceive as a blatant
violation of their civil rights Even though there was lack of rebellion against the
federal government, more than 2,000 government
employees lost their jobs as a results of his investigations After his decision to broadcast the Army-McCarthy
hearings on national television after he turned his
attention to expose the supposed communist infiltration of the armed services, his support begun to wane until eventually, after the Armys Chief Counsel lost it when he viciously attacked an Army lawyer, many observers as a shameful moment in American politics. By the time the hearings were over, he had lost a lost of his supporters The Senate condemned him for his inexcusable, inexcusable,reprehensible,vulgarand