THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
MCCARTHYISM AND THE RED SCARE
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The Blue Scare
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The Red Scare
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The Witch Scare
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The Red Death
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Detailed explanation-1: -The second Red Scare occurred after World War II (1939–1945), and is known as “McCarthyism” after its best-known advocate, Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Detailed explanation-2: -McCarthyism is the practice of making false or unfounded accusations of subversion and treason, especially when related to anarchism, communism, and socialism, and especially when done in a public and attention-grabbing manner.
Detailed explanation-3: -McCarthyism is the term describing a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in the United States which began during the start of the Cold War, that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the mid to late 1950s. The term gets its name from U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, a Republican of Wisconsin.
Detailed explanation-4: -The First Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included the Russian 1917 October Revolution and anarchist bombings.