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Oct 29, 2009 · Joseph R. McCarthy, a U.S. senator from Wisconsin, is best known for his high-profile attempts to expose communists in the U.S. government during the 1950s.
Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. He alleged that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, [2] [3] and elsewhere.
Apr 30, 2024 · Joseph McCarthy framed the Cold War ideological struggle in terms of Christian morality and immoral “communistic atheism.” Throughout the early 1950s, his crusade against communist immorality was accompanied by a government-mandated purge of federal employees deemed national security threats on account of their “perverted” sexual ...
Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957) was an American lawyer and politician, famous for instigating and leading witch hunts against suspected communists in the 1950s. McCarthy was born in rural Wisconsin, the fifth of nine children to Irish working-class parents.
McCarthyism, 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.
Jun 26, 2022 · Joseph McCarthy, an Irish Catholic, made common cause with prominent religious anticommunists, including southern evangelist Billy James Hargis of Christian Crusade, a popular radio and television ministry that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s. Cold War religion in America also crossed the political divide.
Over the next few years, McCarthy capitalized on existing Cold War fears that Soviet communist subversion from within threatened the United States at the highest reaches of government. The ensuing scramble to purge the government of these alleged infiltrators spread across the country.
