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McCarthyism

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McCarthyism

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  1. McCarthyism http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://lheying.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/joe-mccarthy1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://lheying.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/good-night-and-good-luck-preview/&usg Katie Hartman http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://static.newworldencyclopedia.org/thumb/2/21/Is_this_tomorrow.jpg/225px-Is_this_tomorrow.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/McCarthyism&usg http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/mccarthyism-3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/mccarthyism5.htm&usg

  2. McCarthyism: the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://lheying.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/joe-mccarthy1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://lheying.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/good-night-and-good-luck-preview/&usg http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nndb.com/people/490/000051337/joseph_mccarthy.jpg&imgrefurl http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://members.tripod.com/~CARIART/Sean_Connery_2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://cariart.tripod.com/JAMESBOND-3.html&usg

  3. Wheeling Speech- accused people with list of 205 “known communists” • http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://extremecatholic.blogspot.com/images/mccarthy.jpg&imgrefurl=http://extremecatholic.blogspot.com/2003_05_04_archive.html&usg “I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five (people) that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department” http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.radicalprints.org/Images/McCarthyandCohn.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.radicalprints.org/themovement.html&usg

  4. Tydings Committee- McCarthy accused 9 specific people: Dorothy Kenyon, Esther Brunauer, Haldore Hanson, Gustavo Duran, Owen Lattimore, Harlow Shapley, Frederick Schuman, John S. Service, and Philip Jessup. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://conservapedia.com/images/thumb/f/fa/Joseph_McCarthy.jpg/250px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg&imgrefurl=http://amandachronister.com/motivating-joseph-mccarthy-during-red-scare/&usg

  5. Claimed that Truman and the Democrats were in league with communists • Targeted Truman's secretary of defense george catlett marshall (architect of marshall Plan) • Referred to the democratic leadership as “The twenty-one years of treason” http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/fi/vol15/no02/mccarthy.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/fi/vol15/no02/sharon.html&usg

  6. “Senator McCarthy’s zeal to uncover subversion and espionage led to disturbing excesses. His browbeating tactics destroyed careers of people who were not involved in the infiltration of our government. His freewheeling style caused both the Senate and the Subcommittee to revise the rules governing future investigations, and prompted the courts to act to protect the Constitutional rights of witnesses at Congressional hearings... These hearings are a part of our national past that we can neither afford to forget nor permit to reoccur.”

  7. Began to accuse military members of being communists • Army-Mccarthy Hearings: Joseph lost support of Republicans "There is a growing impatience with the Republican Party. McCarthyism has become a synonym for witch-hunting, Star chamber methods, and the denial of...civil liberties. –Congressman george h. bender Watkins Committee: Senate Voted on 2 charges for Mccarthy • That McCarthy had "failed to cooperate with the Subcommittee on Rules and Administration," and "repeatedly abused the members who were trying to carry out assigned duties..." • That McCarthy had charged "three members of the [Watkins] Select Committee with 'deliberate deception' and 'fraud'...that the special Senate session...was a 'lynch party,'" and had characterized the committee "as the 'unwitting handmaiden,' 'involuntary agent' and 'attorneys in fact' of the Communist Party," and had "acted contrary to senatorial ethics and tended to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute, to obstruct the constitutional processes of the Senate, and to impair its dignity."

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