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Joseph McCarthy’s Commie Crusade

Joseph McCarthy’s Commie Crusade. The Second Red Scare. McCarthy Begins Crusade. Army-McCarthy Hearings. Downfall of McCarthy. Works Cited. The Second Red Scare. America’s fear of communism and the paranoid belief that it would upset capitalism/out government Began after WWII Causes

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Joseph McCarthy’s Commie Crusade

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  1. Joseph McCarthy’s Commie Crusade The Second Red Scare McCarthy Begins Crusade Army-McCarthy Hearings Downfall of McCarthy Works Cited

  2. The Second Red Scare • America’s fear of communism and the paranoid belief that it would upset capitalism/out government • Began after WWII • Causes • Iron Curtain and Soviet expansion • China falls to communism • Nuclear arms race • Espionage The first Soviet hydrogen bomb test scared many Americans

  3. The Second Red Scare cont. • Left Americans vulnerable • Demagoguery - impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace

  4. McCarthy Begins Crusade • United States Senator (R – Wisconsin) • Presented list of 205 people in State Department to a Republican women’s group in Wheeling, WV • Accused of being in Communist Party • List was later reduced to 57 people • Caused uproar and gained much publicity • Did not reveal how names were gathered • Suspected to be from “Lee List”, gathered by the House Appropriations Committee. • McCarthy called for an investigation into these alleged communists and communist sympathizers

  5. McCarthy Begins Crusade cont. • Tydings Committee investigation • Committee directed by Senator Millard Tydings to investigate McCarthy’s claims. • McCarthy could not name a single State Department employee • Refused to back down, kept making anti-communist accusations • McCarthy criticized Dwight. D. Eisenhower of his own party, saying his administration was sheltering communists

  6. Army-McCarthy Hearings

  7. Army-McCarthy Hearings cont. • McCarthy’s rude, uncivilized behavior became one of the focus points of the hearings • “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” ~Joseph Welch • The hearings lasted from April 1954 to June 1954. They were televised in April • Claims remained unjustified

  8. De-popularization of McCarthy and McCarthyism • McCarthy’s rude behavior from the Army-McCarthy Hearings lost him support • Censured by Senate in simple Resolution 301 • (vote of 67 to 22) • Lost respect of legislative peers for not providing evidence of claims that divided and scared the public • McCarthy’s mental and physical health decreased after censure • Alcoholism increased • Died May 2, 1957 from acute cirrhosis of the liver due to alcoholism

  9. The End X X

  10. Works Cited • "Commie Pix." Tagg.org. Web. 23 Feb. 2010. <http://tagg.org/rants/commies/commypix.htm>. • "Demagoguery, demagogy." Answers.com. Web. 22 Feb. 2010. <http://www.answers.com/topic/demagoguery-demagogy>. • "Joseph McCarthy: Biography." Appleton Public Library. Web. 22 Feb. 2010. <http://www.apl.org/history/mccarthy/biography.html>. • "Joseph McCarthy Biography." Biography.com. Web. 23 Feb. 2010. <http://www.biography.com/articles/Joseph-McCarthy-9390801>. • "McCarthyism." Absolute Astronomy. Web. 23 Feb. 2010. <http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/McCarthyism>.

  11. Works Cited cont. • "McCarthy Hearings." United States History. Web. 24 Feb. 2010. <http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1769.html>. • Senate Resolution 301, December 2, 1954; SEN 83A-B4, Records of the United States Senate; Record Group 46; National Archives • Zhumanonline. "Army McCarthy Hearings "Have you no decency"" YouTube. Web. 22 Feb. 2010. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqQD4dzVkwk>.

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