What were Joseph McCarthy's motives?

Answer 1

Joseph McCarthy was a senator from Wisconsin who led the Red Scare. This permeated all levels of society. McCarthy greatly exaggerated communism. He was an alcoholic. In 1950 he was facing a losing campaign. He claimed to know communists in the American government and also claimed that China fell to communism because of these people; He was lying though. Truman called him fraud but people still bought into his ideas. McCarthyism was successful because it offered easy answers and explanations for why China fell to communism and why we couldn't bring capitalism to Korea. There was partial truth to the need of fear, because there were spies caught spying on our atomic weapons. McCarthyism started to decline after Republicans cut off his support and he attacked the military and the Marshal Plan. As a result of McCarthyism, the state department loses the Asian experts and Americans learn a lesson that not everything is a communist plot.

Answer 2

The lie which Josheph McCarthy told to America was that anyone who believed in the political ideology of communism or Marxism, or had ever done so at any time in his or her life, or who was socially associated with communists in anyway, was therefore an agent of the Soviet Union and was bent upon the destruction of America. Exactly why McCarthy would wish to create an atmosphere of paranoia in America is a matter of psychological speculation, but the simplest explanation would be that he actually was a paranoid schizophrenic. Other than that, he may simply have calculated that this would be a route to political power for himself. My own guess is that he was guided by a mixture of actual paranoia and political opportunism.

Answer 3

to eliminate all communist actvity the crucible pg. 199-210

Answer 4

Joseph McCarthy feared a that a worldwide Communist conspiracy was plotting to take over the United States.

Answer 5

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