Joseph McCarthy

Extreme, reckless charges that caused people to lose their jobs and destroyed their reputations.

Congress's response was to censure him after his long tirade of baseless Communist accusations in the Army, Government, and what not. His accusations began in 1950 and after three long years of hunting Communists without facts the Army, with the Presidents blessing, put McCarthy on trial for trying to get a former aide of his better treatment in the Army. This trial/ hearing were televised for the 36 days it went on and 20 million people watched. The people who watched realized McCarthy was just a bully and his popularity began to plummet. With his popularity gone Congress finally felt confident enough to try and censure him in 1954. The censure hearing held to see if he should be censured on 46 different accounts. After about two months the hearing ended and he was censured on only 2 accounts. This took away most of his power. No one listened to his speeches and television stayed away from him. After three years as a powerless senator he died of inflammation of the liver on May 2, 1957. He was 48.

mccarthy claimed that the us army was full of communists

Joseph McCarthy had 6 siblings. He was the 5th of 7.

By accusing people of communism, he could cost them their jobs

The press did not investigate the charges, they simply printed them

In the 1950's, Senator Joe McCarthy headed the Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities. This was, in effect, a modern day witch hunt for alleged communists (Reds). People were ruthlessly persecuted, harassed and had their careers taken away from them by baseless claims of communist activity. They were prodded to implicate their friends, much the same way as people were encouraged to name names during the Salem Witch Trials.

When he finally accused President Dwight D. Eisenhower of being a communist they had finally had enough.

joseph mccarthy

Joseph McCarthy.

Joseph McCarthy

extreme, reckless charges that caused people to lose their jobs and destroyed their reputations

His daughter moved to Europe and died of a car accident.

McCarthy claimed that there were known communists in the State Department. He held investigations and hearings and which ruined many careers. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower so feared his influence with the public that they did nothing to stop him. When McCarthy attacked the US Army as a hotbed of communist activity, the Senate finally censored him and he died a broken politician.

that was his mistake he should have ask if they were communist, must communist do not join the party, like john carey, the clintio jimmy carter, jane fonda,and eisenhoward , had paton killed by the jedburgs, most democrats are communist, and mccarthy was right the state deparment is communist t our generals have taken us to far away wars, and ignored latin america, letting it become full of drugs, become so poor, and kennedy let communist nation 90 miles from us, the clintons robbed poor haiti of there huracane money, why the newyork times lied about cuba a country that the cubans never left before 1959, was one of the best economies at the level of europe ycastro was called a robin hood, a man that b;lack mail all the coffee plantations, sugar mills by the way tell the americans that went to cut cane with hillary,during there summer vacation, and destroyed the plantations , sugar canes are cut from january to march and has to be cold or the cane does not become sweet, the cane crystal has been destroy in cuba, the cigars, the coffee, the cane cutters were paid 2000. doll;ars for the three months,thanks to the americans tha t paid wel and for ced our economy to grow, the cane cutters then worked some times as teachers who made 75 dollars a month, cuba today is the poorest country inthe world, and the people castro made them crooks, thieves,so they could eat once a day, it sounds like we are going ther slowly but surely, that is communism,socialism, or any name that radicals call it the thruth is we have to get going or get gone by them

McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. During the McCarthy era, thousands of Americans were accused of being Communists or communist sympathizers.

I think it was because he was a bad man about accusing people of being communists

"The Crucible," written by Arthur Miller, serves as an allegory for McCarthyism, highlighting the dangers of mass hysteria and the consequences of false accusations. Pros of the play include its powerful critique of moral cowardice and the importance of individual integrity, making it a timeless commentary on social justice. Conversely, a con is that its heavy-handed allegorical approach may oversimplify complex historical events. Similarly, Joseph McCarthy's fervent anti-communism revealed a dark chapter in American history, promoting fear and paranoia, but it also exposed genuine security concerns of the time, illustrating the fine line between vigilance and oppression.

His full name was Joseph Raymond McCarthy.

It's difficult to actually say.He's such a polarizing figure in our history,it's hard to find truthful information that's not manipulated to make him look one way or another.In one paper, he accused close to 60,but some of his enemies exaggerate and say that he accused nearly 205.The facts are that many of the people he accused were in fact communists, as revealed by declassified documents from the C.I.A. and K.G.B. So,yes, he was zealous, and perhaps a borderline demagogue,but he wasn't just covering his eyes,spinning around,pointing, and then declaring, "He's a communist!"

The senator from Wisconsin and a number of other people saw that Communism was dedicated to the overthrow of existing governments, judged by the writings and statements of Communist leaders. The means they chose to use to protect the US from this threat have been debated, and history seems to have judged McCarthy negatively.

Nixon believed that McCarthy was a fraud

He was a US Senator.