McCarthy
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- Joseph McCarthy
- Reasons for McCarthy's Red Scare
- Events like the Berlin Crisis, China's fall to communism and news that the USSR had developed an atomic bomb, as well as domestic events like the 'Hollywood 10' case led to increased fears in communism by 1950
- after lying his way through senate elections in 1946, blaming his limp on war-wounds when really he'd fallen downstairs at a party, McCarthy was voted by political correspondents as the worst senator in the US in 1949.
- he needed a popularity boost
- McCarthy's Actions
- starting in February 1950, McCarthy made a series of speeches claiming that communist spies were working for the state department - although none were named
- McCarthy and his supporters accused Millard Tydings (conservative democrat) of being friends with US communist party leader Earl Browder using a faked photo as evidence
- Tydings did not win re-election in November 1950
- McCarthy's campaigns contributed directly to the defeat of many Democrats including presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson
- the press were carried along with and played upon the hysteria McCarthy whipped up. McCarthy had a strong relationship with many newspapers
- Impact of McCarthy's actions
- supporters of McCarthy attacked US Information Agencies libraries as they exhibited the work of radicals like Mark Twain.
- freedom was being stifled and books were being censored
- spy scares such as the Rosenberg added fuel to McCarthy's accusations
- the Senate responded to McCarthy's claims by setting up the Tydings committee to investigate
- McCarthy's campaigns contributed directly to the defeat of many Democrats including presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson
- the press were carried along with and played upon the hysteria McCarthy whipped up. McCarthy had a strong relationship with many newspapers
- supporters of McCarthy attacked US Information Agencies libraries as they exhibited the work of radicals like Mark Twain.
- Opposition to McCarthy's action
- the senate responded to McCarthy's claims by setting up the Tydings committee to investigate
- Reasons for McCarthy's Red Scare
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