McCarthyism
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- Created on: 23-04-20 10:07
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- Topic 7
- McCarthyism main claims
- Trumans administartion were too soft on communism
- US state department had been infiltrated by communits
- Global communist plot was made against the USA
- Film industry was full of communists
- Communistswere in the US army
- Truman was responsible for the fall of China
- USA's response
- American focus shifted from Europe to Asia
- McCarthy said containment had not been effective in Asia
- Truman tried to solve the Chinese civil war through diplomacy and McCarthy thought he was too soft
- UK's response
- Increased defence and influence in Europe and maintained alliance with USA
- Agressive anti-communists grew which could destabilise Europe
- Spy scandals
- Klaus Fuchs was accused of giving the USSR atomic secrets
- Alger Hiss was found guilty of giving secret papers from the government to the USSR
- His case lead to wide spread accusations towards government officials and powerful individuals
- Hollywood blacklisting
- Charlie Chaplin was deported from the USA back to the UK as he was being investigated for being a communist sympathiser
- 350 Hollywood associates were blacklisted during this time
- Loyalty review board
- 1,200 fired after 4 years
- Introduced by Truman in 1947
- Checked givernment employees
- 6,000 resigned
- Many educators from universities were fired
- Senator Joseph McCarthy
- Hard drinker and insignificant senator
- 1953- he was given control of senate comittee on government operations
- Had many supporters in the working/lower class
- Died in 1957 from alcohol
- His 1954 investigation into the army led to his downfall and soon became a joke to Americans
- Had no evidence to back up his claims
- February 1950 he held a speech about how the state department was infested with spies
- McCarthyism main claims
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