anti-American trials of several prominent American citizens he believed were subversive communists
There were communists in the military.
mccarthy claimed that the us army was full of communists
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.
Saying that he had a list of Communists employed by the State Department
State Department
Joseph McCarthy
Senator Joseph McCarthy
The State Department had been infiltrated by Communists. The Red Scare. Joseph McCarthy was responsible for the anti-American trials of several prominent American citizens he believed were subversive communists.
Joseph McCarthy was a US Senator in the late 1940's who was looking for people,such as Communists who were plotting to subvert the US government.
McCarthy claimed that the U.S. Army was full of communists.
There were communists in the military.
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy was investigating the possibility of communists and spies infiltrating our own federal government during the heated years of the Cold War.
I think it was because he was a bad man about accusing people of being communists
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy
US Congressman Joseph McCarthy (who was anti-communist) tried to expose communists working in Hollywood and in Washington, DC.