- McCarthyism | Definition, History, Facts | Britannica
McCarthyism, name given to the period of the 1950s when Senator Joseph McCarthy produced a series of investigations and hearings in an effort to expose supposed communist infiltration of the U S government McCarthyism reached its peak and began its decline during the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954
- Joseph McCarthy - Wikipedia
Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U S Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957
- Joseph McCarthy | Biography, Senator, McCarthyism, Communism, Facts . . .
Joseph McCarthy (born November 14, 1908, near Appleton, Wisconsin, U S —died May 2, 1957, Bethesda, Maryland) was an American politician who served in the U S Senate (1947–57), representing Wisconsin, and who lent his name to the term McCarthyism
- McCarthyism - Wikipedia
The historical period that came to be known as the McCarthy era began well before Joseph McCarthy's own involvement in it Many factors contributed to McCarthyism, some of them with roots in the First Red Scare (1917–20), inspired by communism's emergence as a recognized political force and widespread social disruption in the United States
- How did McCarthyism begin? | Britannica - Encyclopedia Britannica
In 1950, Joseph McCarthy, who had been elected to the U S Senate in 1946, made a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, in which he stated that the U S was engaged in a “battle between communistic atheism and Christianity” and declared that he had “here in my hand” a list of a large number of communists working in the State Department—a
- Documents that Changed the World: Joseph McCarthy’s ‘list,’ 1950
Wisconsin Sen Joseph McCarthy, right, holds forth at the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations’ McCarthy-Army hearings on June 9, 1954 At left is Joseph Welch, chief senate counsel representing the United States Army
- The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy - Los Angeles Times
When Joseph McCarthy arrived in Los Angeles in August 1953 to hold public hearings, he was at the pinnacle of his power The previous fall, Wisconsin voters had elected him to the U S
- Joseph R. McCarthy: A Featured Biography - U. S. Senate
Elected to the Senate in 1946, Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957) did not draw major national attention until 1950 On February 9th of that year, he delivered a Lincoln Day address in Wheeling, West Virginia, blaming failures in American foreign policy on Communist infiltration of the U S government
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