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McCarthyism
Joseph McCarthy
His charge that the Army was full of communists was a step beyond believability and common decency.
Cato the Younger was a senator who led an army against Caesar.
Larry Scott Nelson fought in the civil war with China.
McCarthyism
McCarthyism
Joseph McCarthy was a US Senator from Wisconsin during the Cold War. Senator McCarthy led a witch hunt against supposed communists in the US government.
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy
His charge that the Army was full of communists was a step beyond believability and common decency.
People in the 1950s were genuinely afraid that the Communists could take over the United States and that fear led to people accepting Joseph McCarthy's witch-hunt for "Communists" in the US government and popular culture as a method of protecting the US and its values.
The communists, led by Mao Zedong
Josef Stalin
Cato the Younger was a senator who led an army against Caesar.
Senator Joseph McCarthy pretended to pursue communism but it was seen by many as a way of publicizing himself. He was seen as a demagogue who preyed upon people's fears and prejudices for personal gain and in the process destroyed many people's lives.President Dwight Eisenhouer said, "Senator McCarthy is, of course, so anxious for the headlines that he is prepared to go to any extremes in order to secure some mention of his name in the public press."
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.