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For what reasons, and with what effects, did McCarthyism occur in the US…

- - - - McCarthy seized the paranoia of this in order to claim that communist spies were omnipresent and he alone could save them.
        
        on February 20th McCarthy addressed the Senate, and made some suspicious claims against communists.
        
        he cited 81 cases that day,
        
        this fiasco called McCarthy into the spotlight
        
        He accused many low-level officials but eventually went for the big names such as Dean Acheson, and George Marshall
        
        staying in the headlines was a full-time job.
        
        However he was viewed as an asset by Robert Taft, and Richard Nixon. this was rewarded by the public by sending them red-baiters.
        
        despite having flimsy evidence, and proving nothing the senate called for a full investigation.
        
        on February 9th McCarthy proclaimed that he knew of 205 card-carrying members of the Communist Party who work for the U.S
- - - - the House Committee on Un-American Activities was another such group
        
        this group targeted Hollywood, and caused these people to appear in before a committee
        
        while there they were asked to provide names of communist colleagues
        
        uncooperative artists were blacklisted from jobs in the entertainment industry.
        
        those who refused were cited for contempt
        
        those who gave up names could go back to business
        
        Actors
        
        writers
        
        producers
      - all across the country state legislatures and school boards mimicked McCarthy and HUAC
        
        because of this thousand of people lost their jobs and their reputations tarnished.
    - - despite the long reach of soviet spies nearly all of the accused were innocent
  - - - this was a big mistake
        
        the army retaliated by by questioning McCarthy's
        
        one official asked "at long last, have you no sense of decency left?"
        
        credibility
        
        methods
      - for eight weeks, McCarthy televised hearings where he interrogated army officials, including man war heroes
    - - completely through with McCarthy his colleagues censured him for dishonoring the state.
        
        when the hearings ended McCarthy
        
        died three years later
        
        was plagued with poor health
        
        was plagued with alcoholism
    - - however he was afraid that he would split the republican party if he condemned him.
  - - - withdrawing troops from southeast Asia without being branded a communist
      - opening trade with China without being branded a communist
    - - these books were taken because they were deemed communist like
    - - when they sensed trouble the AFL, and CIO merged in 1955 into close ranks.
        
        AFL (American Federation of Labor)
        
        CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations)