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Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of ...
While he criticized Stalin and other Communist figures, he also believed that the United States was overreacting to the danger of communism. Herblock coined the term "McCarthyism" in this March 29, 1950 cartoon. In the early 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy was a recurring target of Herblock's cartoons, one of which introduced the term McCarthyism.
Articles relating to Joseph McCarthy, United States Senator from Wisconsin (1908–1957, term 1947–1957). Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
The Declaration of Conscience was a Cold War speech made by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith on June 1, 1950, less than four months after Senator Joseph McCarthy's "Wheeling Speech", on February 9, 1950. Her speech was endorsed by six other liberal-to-moderate Republicans.
On Tuesday, McCarthy faced just such a motion.It was only the second time in US history that it was invoked, and the first time the speaker lost the resulting vote. In fact, the only other time ...
The Hollywood blacklist was the mid-20th century banning of suspected Communists from working in the United States entertainment industry. The blacklist began at the onset of the Cold War and Red Scare , and affected entertainment production in Hollywood , New York , and elsewhere.
McCarthy ended up being censured by his Senate colleagues and his career was then -- for the most part -- over. Tapper told Colbert when it comes to Trump, he "doesn’t know how it all ends ...
Beat the Devils takes place in an alternate history 1958, one in which Joseph McCarthy is president of the United States, and xenophobic, anti-communist fervor has reached new heights. The book ...