Fidel Castro's communist revolution. The US was very leery about having a communist country just a few miles from their shores.
McCarthy's supporters believed that he was motivated by concern for his country and wanted to protect it from subversive and Communist elements. Opponents believe that McCarthy was motivated by his own ego or other negative motives.
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The playwrite Arthur Miller was one prime example of the American arts community who had to testify before McCarthy's Comittee.
•Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy, up for reelection raised the specter of Communist conspiracies within the United States. •McCarthy produced a list of 250 names of presumed Communist-supporting government employees. Later, when scrutinized, this list was reduced to 57. •Although McCarthy's accusations were usually baseless and unprovable, few were willing to risk their reputations by speaking out against him.
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The studios created a black list of members they suspected of having communist sympathies. The people on the list could not get jobs writing, directing or acting in Hollywood. This lasted a long time. Ronald Regain supported this discriminatory activity.
Senator Joseph McCarthy (a Republican from ) is best known for his role in the "Red Scare" of the 1950s, so much so that a new term for a "witch hunt" of suspected enemies with little or no proof emerged: "McCarthyism".Following World War 2, it quickly became clear that wartime ally the Soviet Union would become a rival for global power with the United States. This, combined with the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, led to an epidemic of paranoia over the "Red Menace", which McCarthy capitalized on by accusing members of the US State Department of being communist sympathizers. He was fond of claiming he had "a list of names" of known communists in the government. McCarthy even went so far as to accuse high-ranking members of the military of communist leanings; it was his attacks on the military that seem to have finally turned people against McCarthy, as even President Eisenhower (also a Republican), finally denounced the wayward Senator, after having remained silent on the issue of McCarthyism.
The "Witch Hunts" were methods employed by Conservative Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy during the cold war. He basically said he had a list of Communist sympathizers that were able to infiltrate the government, these claims were however, unfounded, which eventually lead to his censure and political decline as fellow Conservatives and Republicans saw him as a liability. The term McCarthyism means to accuse someone of disloyalty, treason, and/or subversion without evidence. People who questioned McCarthyists were branded as communists, traitors, etc.
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In 1950, Joseph McCarthy told a Republican audience at Wheeling, West Virginia, that he had a list of 205 known Communists who were working in the State Department. He also said that the Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, knew about the Communist influence in his department. McCarthy had no such list and the next day he could not even remember if he said 205 or 57. During the McCarthy witch hunt, he never released a single name and never fingered a single Communist in the government. McCarthy reached his peak of influence in 1952. Even the Republican candidate for President, Eisenhower, refused to publically denounce McCarthy, even though he detested the man. McCarthy's influence came to an end in 1954, when he took on the U.S. Army, accusing them of having known Communists in leadership. The Senate finally censured him in December, 1954 by a vote of 72 to 22.
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He was an American-born member of the United States Air Force who got caught in the brutual machinery of McCarthyism in the 1950's. His father was from Serbia, and subscribed to several Serbian newspapers to "keep up" on what was going on in his home country. One of those newspapers was determined to have a "communist leaning". Because Radulovich (understandably) kept close ties with his family, he was dismissed from the Air Force for "consorting with those suspected of having Communist sympathies". The event was covered on television, including Radulovich's lawyer, who called the case the "worst travesty of justice I have seen in 32 years of practice". Radulovich was reinstated a month later. It was the beginning of the end for Sen. Joe McCarthy.
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