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Joseph Stalin was the key person in McCarthyism. He employed agents in the US, many in high political offices. It was named after Joseph McCarthy, a senator and republican from Wisconsin. He charged that communists were taking over the government, and took advantage of peoples concerns about communism. If succeeded at first, but eventually fell out of favor.

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