Turning POint: McCarthyism and Communism
Joseph McCarthy and the Second Red Scare revolutionized how the American public, generally, viewed Communism. Following events after the Soviet Union's completion and detonation of an atomic bomb in 1949, Americans were plagued with fear and a rising hysteria arose. During the Republican Ladies Auxiliary Club in February 1950, Joseph McCarthy, then a raging alcoholic, claimed to have a list of some 205 allegedly Communist figures in Truman's State Department. There on, McCarthy proceeded to accuse more political figures, playwrights, and people of all kinds of being Communist. McCarthy spear-headed the attacks on Communism and along with the Cold War, created a mass hysteria therefore revolutionizing how the American public perceived communism.
Jeremiah Canete
McCarthyism and Communism
Senior Divison
Grade: 11
McCarthyism and Communism
Senior Divison
Grade: 11