Joseph McCarthy

McCarthyism, named after Joseph McCarthy, was a period of intense anticommunism, also (popularly) known as the (second) Red Scare, which occurred in the United States from 1948 to about 1956 (or later), when the government of the United States was actively engaged in suppression of the Communist Party USA, its leadership, and others suspected of being communists.... Site located here: http://www.payer.de/fundamentalismus/fundamentalismus053.htm

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In 1950 anti-communist hysteria began to emerge in the USA as encouraged by the actions of Senator Joe McCarthy who began accusing high-ranking US officials of being communists or at least them selling secrets to the Russians. Many government employees were found guilty about passing on secrets about the Atom Bomb but he eventually lost popularity and then soon power as his accusations grew wilder and cruder each day. All this simply served to increase tension between the two superpowers due to the hysteria created and the detest shown by this senator towards the communists.

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Just like the rest of the really good pop singers; They got old no body really yelled for their name for awhile and he just swept away with the dust. Soon that's whats going to happen to Miley Cyrus and Justin Beiber and all those other pop stars.. I can see it now :O

Reagan may have tried to help some actors that McCarthy's committee caused to be blacklisted. Surely he knew some of these people and had likely worked with them.

Bonzo Reagan did nothing to help those people that had been slandered, defiled and brow-beat by McCarthy and his brutal browbeating methods. McCarthy seized upon the idea of painting himself as a rapacious anti-communist Senator when he realized that due to his high number of missed committee meeting, missed votes (highest no-vote record in the Senate at the time), that his re-election was in serious jeopardy - he need to create a new facade, a he had watched the media covering the House Un-American activities hearings, so he began his own grand-stand in the Senate.

McCarthy engaged in a grand-standing outrageous charade designed to get him maximum press coverage and notoriety. He made claims of having pages of documented communist conspirators that had infiltrated the state department and the upper echelons of the military. These papers never existed, he made it up. He conducted a witch hunt that left thousands of people's careers destroyed and resulting in over 100 suicides, and not one truly subversive who had succeeded in getting into an even moderate level of the government.

To quote Senators Carl Levin and Susan Collins:

"Senator McCarthy's zeal to uncover subversion and espionage led to disturbing excesses. His browbeating tactics destroyed careers of people who were not involved in the infiltration of our government. His freewheeling style caused both the Senate and the Subcommittee to revise the rules governing future investigations, and prompted the courts to act to protect the Constitutional rights of witnesses at Congressional hearings... These hearings are a part of our national past that we can neither afford to forget nor permit to reoccur."

McCarthy claimed that there were known communists in the State Department. He held investigations and hearings and which ruined many careers. He never actually presented any facts to back up his claims that people were communists or "fellow travelers" or traitors to the nation. 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.

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McCarthy charged that the State Department was infested with communist agents

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In the 1950's, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigated Communists who had supposedly infiltrated all aspects of American life, including the government, the military, and Hollywood. (The committee was formed in 1938 and dissolved in 1975, but it is most famous from the 1950's. Although Joseph McCarthy was in the U.S. Senate, not the House of Representatives, he worked in parallel with HUAC.)

We're doing the Crucible in English that was written by Arthur Miller as a link to the McCarthy trials. As far as we have researched we have found out that the McCArthy trails were about finding ommmunists in America after the 2nd world wr as the government were worried about being overthrown. McCarthy was unfair in the way he trailed suspects, he gave them two choises, either admit to communism and go to jail or lose all your rights and belongings, or tell them of people you know who are communists. Obviously this did not really work as people lied to get out of jail. But yeah, as far as i know that's what it is. :)

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True. Joseph McCarthy, a U.S. Senator in the 1950s, gained notoriety for his aggressive and often unfounded allegations of communist infiltration in the government and other sectors. His tactics, characterized by fearmongering and the lack of credible evidence, ultimately led to a loss of public trust and his censure by the Senate. McCarthy's legacy is often viewed as a cautionary tale about the dangers of political witch hunts and the erosion of civil liberties.

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During the McCarthy era, a wide range of professionals were targeted by Senator Joseph McCarthy's accusations, particularly those in government, the entertainment industry, education, and the media. Many artists, writers, and actors were accused of communist affiliations, leading to blacklisting and loss of careers. Additionally, government officials and military personnel faced scrutiny, with accusations often lacking substantial evidence. These actions fostered a climate of fear and suspicion, leading to significant repercussions for many individuals and their professions.

he was asked to show the names of people he accused of being communist and he didnt have any names

We can now observe the McCarthy witch hunt with the perfect clarity of hindsight, however, it was not that simple at the time. It was true that the USSR was the enemy of the US and had active agents within the US, although as it turns out, none of the people targeted by McCarthy or his allies in the House Un-American Activities Committee were actually Soviet agents. The conflict between capitalist and communist economic systems did exist, it was not imaginary, but the strategy of responding to this threat was frequently wrong. McCarthy did not consider his statements to be unbelievable and neither did large numbers of Americans who supported him, including Richard Nixon, one of the early crusaders against communist infiltration, who later was elected to two terms as President, although he also resigned in his second term. McCarthyism tapped in to a certain element of paranoia in the American public. There are today still people who claim that Barack Obama does not legally qualify to be President, which is just the latest version of the same paranoia.

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