McCarthyism

McCarthyism McCarthyism McCarthyism was a time period throughout the 1940’s and 1950’s where America was overwhelmed with concerns about the threat of communism growing in Eastern Europe and China. Emphasizing on those concerns, a young Senator named Joseph McCarthy publicly accused more than two hundred "card-carrying" communists for infiltrating the United States government. McCarthy claimed to have a list of Communists who worked in the State Department. Although his accusations remained unsupported and a Senate committee labeled them "a fraud and a hoax," McCarthy won a national following. Naming the Democrats as a party of treason, he called his political enemies as "soft on Communism". McCarthyism came to mean false charges of disloyalty. In the Crucible, a lot of the townspeople were wrongfully accused of witchcraft. A lot of the accusations were based on unfair investigative techniques all to prove “disloyalty” to the town, or its residents. None of the information used against the accused was necessarily true, but nevertheless was still used against the people to prove wrong doings. The people, accusations, mccarthyism, mccarthy, false, disloyalty, crucible, both, based, accused, wrongfully, unfair, time, situation, prove, lot, linked, hurt, concerns, communists, communism, been, because, against, mccarthyism, yourself, young, wrong, wounded, worked, won, witchcraft, whole, while, way