McCarthy’s efforts to find anyone linked to communism became known as the ‘witch hunts’. Over 100 university lecturers lost their jobs. Over 320 Hollywood actors were blacklisted ...

This communist witch hunt therefore became known as ‘McCarthyism’. The term also refers to outlandish, sensationalist, unproven accusations of communist sympathy and connections. McCarthy's ...

In the United States, Senator Joseph McCarthy led the communist witch-hunts in the 1950s. He convinced many Americans that members of the Communist Party had infiltrated the United States government.

Set during the McCarthy 'witch-hunts' in Fifties Hollywood, this intelligent drama, written and directed by veteran producer Irwin Winkler, has at its centre the dilemma faced by film director ...

"This is a witch-hunt," Peskov stressed. "Do you remember McCarthyism in the United States - how many people were arrested and imprisoned. This is the same." "We vehemently condemn this.

The spirit of the Salem witch-hunt haunts Washington again ... storm of rumors and accusations which remind one of the days of McCarthy and McCloud. Although the President instantly rebuked ...

It's been almost 70 years since America first awoke to that famous question. It was February 1950 when Joseph McCarthy, the Republican Senator from Wisconsin, brandished a list of 205 suspected ...

Joseph McCarthy's communist witch hunt. (McCarthy had launched his famous crusade in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1950, by waving around a piece of paper that he claimed held the names of 205 ...