McCarthyism, 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 …

McCarthyism, name given to the period of time in American history that saw U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin produce a series of investigations and hearings during the 1950s in an effort to expose supposed communist infiltration of various areas of the U.S. government.

McCarthyism is part of the Red Scare period of American history in the late 1940s and 1950s. During that time, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy produced a series of investigations and hearings to expose supposed communist infiltration of various areas of the U.S. government.

2018年1月2日 · The McCarthy Era was marked by dramatic accusations that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of American society as part of a global conspiracy. The period took its name from a Wisconsin senator, Joseph McCarthy, who created a frenzy in the press in February 1950 with his claim that hundreds of communists were spread throughout the ...

Shortly after WWII a phenomenon known as McCarthyism began to emerge in American politics. McCarthyism was the practice of investigating and accusing persons in positions of power or influence of disloyalty, subversion (working secretly to undermine or …

McCarthyism, a term now synonymous with reckless accusation and guilt by association, stands as one of the most infamous periods in modern American history. It encapsulates a time when fear of communist infiltration in the United States spurred a …

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. McCarthyism reached its peak and began its decline during the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954.

McCarthyism refers to the period in the early Cold War era, primarily during the 1950s, characterized by intense anti-communist suspicion and widespread accusations of communist infiltration in the United States government and society.

McCarthyism refers to the period of intense anti-communist suspicion and fear in the United States during the early 1950s, marked by Senator Joseph McCarthy's aggressive investigations and accusations against alleged communists in government, entertainment, and other sectors.

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 ... [176] [177] Bradbury said that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 because of his concerns at the time (during the McCarthy era) about the threat of book burning in the United States. [178] Bob Hope was one of the first comedians to make jokes about McCarthy.