McCarthyism

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The Red Scare and McCarthyism in the 1950’s illustrate that

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fear of communism in the United States has led to violations of civil rights

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The term “McCarthyism” has come to symbolize

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unfounded accusations of disloyalty and a climate of fear

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What was a cause for the investigations of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late 1940s and the investigations of a Senate committee headed by Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s?

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the belief that there were Communist agents in the federal government

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In the post-World War II era, Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee attempted to

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identify Communists in the government and elsewhere in American society

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Who led a “witch hunt” for Communist spies in the United States government during the early 1950s?

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Senator Joseph McCarthy