Mccarthyism
A term coined in 1950, McCarthyism described the escapades of Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin (1908–1957). It was later applied to the broader excesses that chara...
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Mccarthyism
Despite the fact that Americans pride themselves on constitutional protections for free speech, there have been many attempts to limit speech in the United States. Beginning in 1789 with t...
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"The government is full of communists. We can hammer away at them" Senator Joseph McCarthy spoke with his friends at dinner in January of 1950. They need an issue, some kind of goal. Joseph McCarthy ...
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Communism has always been something that democratic countries such as the U.S. have been against. Their philosophies are directly in disagreement with what America believes in. It denounces things s...
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