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Extreme, reckless charges that caused people to lose their jobs and destroyed their reputations.
Extreme, reckless charges that caused people to lose their jobs and destroyed their reputations.
Extreme, reckless charges that caused people to lose their jobs and destroyed their reputations.
extreme, reckless charges that caused people to lose their jobs and destroyed their reputations
The US senator's name was Joseph McCarthy. The Red Scare is also known as McCarthyism.
Joseph McCarthy did not hunt witches, he sought out and persecuted anyone who had communistic values or tendencies, he would oversee hearings and blackballed so many people that this kind of persecution is known as "McCarthyism"
Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin was known for being VERY anti-communist. Attacks (and I don't mean physical) on suspected communist were even refered to as McCarthyism.
Senator Joseph McCarthy began investigating Communist subversion in the United States in 1950. This action led to the Army-McCarthy Hearings in 1954. This activities and methods involved during this period would become known as McCarthyism.
Leading the Red Scare.
red scare
Without proper regard for evidence, U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy is infamous for his practice of making accusations of subversion or treason during a period known as the Second Red Scare, from about 1947 - 1956. So we call that practice "McCarthyism".
McCarthyism, named after Joseph McCarthy, was a period of intense anticommunism, also (popularly) known as the (second) Red Scare, which occurred in the United States from 1948 to about 1956 (or later), when the government of the United States was actively engaged in suppression of the Communist Party USA, its leadership, and others suspected of being communists.... Site located here: http://www.payer.de/fundamentalismus/fundamentalismus053.htm