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    McCarthyism There were lights beaming so bright that you can barely see. All of the sudden the judge enters the courtroom before you. After the judge and this man named Joseph McCarthy asks you questions regarding the Communist Party. You stutter through the microphone and you are hesitant on what to say. This will go down in history as an era with intimidation and very aggressive forms of bullying called McCarthyism. McCarthyism was a campaign or practice that endorses the use of unfair allegations

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    Union were not in direct contact, however used client states to fight for their beliefs such as the incident in Vietnam where the south was anti communist, supplied by the U.S. and the north was pro communist supplied by communist Russia or China. McCarthyism The term McCarthy Trials is referring to Joseph McCarthy, which was an American politician and senator. McCarthy is mostly known for the second red scare in which he claimed that many Communists and Soviet spies have infiltrated numerous places

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    McCarthyism, as I mentioned before, is “the practice of accusing someone of being a Communist and therefore avoiding or not trusting them” (Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 2013) and was developed in the U.S. from 1950 until 1956. This practice appeared

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    backed the Anti-Communist feelings to gain political and popular support. It was very common for people to have to take an Anti-Communist oaths when they worked in the government. If they refused, they were fired.      McCarthyism left its mark on the United States government and its people. If the public could express their opinions about the government without their fears about being labeled a Communist, an event such as the Vietnam War may have not taken place. The cultural

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    McCarthyism To talk about McCarthyism we must first look at what was going on in the United States at the time. WW II had just ended a few years prior, and the cold war was in full swing. Following WW II, for the US Government to be able to spend so much of the taxpayers money on the cold war, the Government had to get the US citizens behind them. To do this the US government started a propaganda campaign to scare the public into thinking the communists were bad and very dangerous people

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    Vivian Gonzalez Mr. Martinez-Ramos A.P. United States History May 3, 2000 McCarthyism was one of the saddest events of American history. It destroyed people’s lives and shattered many families. It threw innocent people into a whirlwind of mass confusion and fictional portrayals of their lives. McCarthyism spawned for the country’s new found terror of Communism known as the red scare. McCarthyism was an extreme version of the red scare, a scare whose ends did not justify the means. The Red Scare happened

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    most complaints were based off of personal rivalries and truly presented no substantial evidence. During the time of Mccarthyism, fear and illogical thinking were also very prominent. According to pbs.org, “a young Senator named Joseph McCarthy made a public accusation that more than two hundred “card-carrying” communists had infiltrated the United States government ( Mccarthyism) ”. Although these accusations were eventually proven to be untrue, it instilled fear in the already paranoid public

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    you are fighting for." (Julia Child, My Life in France) This is true! McCarthyism is one of many practices that came into existence and caused turmoil among the American society. Just like any practice, McCarthyism did have a mass impact on the lives of many people, but more specifically one literary by the name of Arthur Miller. McCarthyism affected him as a human being which in turn was reflected in his writings. McCarthyism was named after Joseph McCarthy, and it meant "ruinous accusation without

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    evidence. In the 1950’s, people were also being accused of being communists with very little evidence. During the time of McCarthyism, fear and illogical thinking were also very prominent. According to pbs.org, “a young Senator named Joseph McCarthy made a public accusation that more than two hundred “card-carrying” communists had infiltrated the United States government ( McCarthyism) ”. Although these accusations were eventually proven to be untrue, it instilled fear in the already paranoid public

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    On February 9, 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy proclaimed that 250 traitorous Communists were employed by the United States Department of State. The ‘Red Scare’, or McCarthyism, as this anti-Communist fervor would come to be known, spread rapidly throughout American society, inciting panic. Individuals in Hollywood came under particular scrutiny in 1951, when the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) held a series of trials to examine alleged Communist influence in the movie industry. The trials

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