Joseph McCarthy

Shut up you stupid thing!!1!

Joseph McCarthy had a fairly unremarkable career in the Senate prior to 1950. He was popular in social circles but not like very well among his fellow Senators. He was voted the worst Senator in office after an incident related to the 1944 Malmedy Massacre.

Joseph McCarthy was born on November 14, 1908 and died on May 2, 1957. Joseph McCarthy would have been 48 years old at the time of death or 106 years old today.

McCarthy's lack of evidence proved to be his downfall. He claimed to have a list of people who were in the communist party. Research shows that he never showed anyone an updated list of those members. Anytime he did not get what he wanted he would claim that anyone was a communist. This also led to his downfall. He accused one of the most decorated soldiers in the army of being a communist. While this trial of accusations were continuing, he was being watched closely by Americans through the television. His rude out burst and vulgar accusations initially led to his downfall. McCarthy's lack of evidence proved to be his downfall. He claimed to have a list of people who were in the communist party. Research shows that he never showed anyone an updated list of those members. Anytime he did not get what he wanted he would claim that anyone was a communist. This also led to his downfall. He accused one of the most decorated soldiers in the army of being a communist. While this trial of accusations were continuing, he was being watched closely by Americans through the television. His rude out burst and vulgar accusations initially led to his downfall.

-that the State Department, and other agencies of government, were overrun with communists…

im writing a term paper for English 11 honors yes, a high school junior paper on the college level :( it stinks

over 9000!!!

^yeah I don't think so, I am researching McCarthyism and the play by Arthur Miller, The Crucible, and somewhere along the way i saw that there were more than 320 people accused, of course this could just be the artists that were blacklisted. I will try to update this if i find a better answer

McCarthyism occured in the 1940s & 1950s, Many people in the USA were accused of being communists with no proof.

A Senator named Joseph McCarthy made a public accusation that more than two hundred “card-carrying” Communistshad infiltrated the United States government. Though his accusations were proven to be untrue, his zealous campaigning produced in one of the most repressive times in 20th-century American politics. This was sometimes called the Red Scare.

I believe he didn't release it because he thought he didn't need an explanation. When he lost his backing, many who were really against the US were free to do as they wanted. He discredited his own cause with his excuses, until he lost all credibility. He overplayed his claims and finally revealed himself to be a form of a liar.

McCarthyism was a campaign against so called communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950-54.
Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party. It was similar to what we now call witch hunts.
McCarthy was carried away as well because of all the attention he got through TV and radio. His claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the United States federal government and elsewhere.
He was unable to substantiate his claims and that led him to be censured by the United States Senate.
He also used various charges of communism, communist sympathies, disloyalty, or homosexuality to attack a number of politicians and other individuals.
He died at the age of 48 of hepatitis perhaps caused by excessive drinking.

The Red Scare.

McCarthy, showeMcCarthy, showed how politics can ride sensationalized issues, imagined or not and profit from it by riding on people's fears & suspicions.

anti-American trials of several prominent American citizens he believed were subversive communists

Nixon ran against Democrat George S. McGovern in the 1968 election and won.

many trials no they were not fair at all?

US Congressman Joseph McCarthy (who was anti-communist) tried to expose communists working in Hollywood and in Washington, DC.

Joseph McCarthy died on May 2, 1957 at the age of 48.

After the death of Sentor Joseph McCarthy she lived quietly in Washington with her mother and daughter. Some years later she remarried G. Joseph Minetti who was a member of the Civil Aeronautics Board.

red scare

Playing on public fear of unseen enemies.

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His accusations against war heroes His televised interrogation of the army that led to censure.

Edward R Murrow

There were communists in the military.