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Bookmark or Share- Red Scare: Cold War, McCarthyism & Facts - HISTORYMcCarthy used hearsay and intimidation to establish himself as a powerful and feared figure in American politics. He leveled charges of disloyalty at celebrities, intellectuals and...
- McCarthyism | Definition, History, & Facts | BritannicaMcCarthyism, name given to the period of the 1950s when Senator Joseph McCarthy produced a series of investigations and hearings in an effort to expose supposed communist infiltration of the U.S. government.
- McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare - Oxford Research EncyclopediasPopularly known as “McCarthyism” after Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin), who made himself famous in 1950 by claiming that large numbers of Communists had infiltrated the U.S. State Department, the second Red Scare in fact predated and outlasted McCarthy, and its machinery far exceeded the reach of a single politician.
- McCarthyism - WikipediaMcCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s. [1]
- McCarthyism | Red Scare | The First Amendment EncyclopediaMcCarthyism was a term coined in the 1950s to describe the practice of publicly accusing government employees or employees of government contractors of political disloyalty or subversive activities and using unsavory investigatory methods to prosecute them.
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