THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER AND THE COLD WAR
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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He succeeded in finding all the communist in America
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The American public could see his aggressive tactics on television
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The Red Scare fades as the economy began to grow and prosper.
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He himself was accused of being a communists, and he quietly retired from public life.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Documents made public in 2004 revealed that the CIA, under Dulles’ orders, had broken into McCarthy’s Senate office and fed disinformation to him in order to discredit him and stop his investigation from proceeding any further.
Detailed explanation-2: -After three largely undistinguished years in the Senate, McCarthy rose suddenly to national fame in February 1950, when he asserted in a speech that he had a list of “members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring” who were employed in the State Department.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following statements best describes the action that ultimately ended public support for Senator McCarthy’s investigations? McCarthy claimed that there were communists in the US military.