HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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Harry Truman
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Joseph McCarthy
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Francis Gary Powers
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Fidel Castro
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Detailed explanation-1: -McCarthyism, also known as the second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of alleged communist and socialist influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s.
Detailed explanation-2: -Senator Joseph R. McCarthy was a little-known junior senator from Wisconsin until February 1950 when he claimed to possess a list of 205 card-carrying Communists employed in the U.S. Department of State.
Detailed explanation-3: -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 in 1957.
Detailed explanation-4: -From the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, McCarthyism-the hunt for Communists in the government and public life, a period most closely associated with Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy-was a significant domestic objective of the Cold War era.
Detailed explanation-5: -In 1953, McCarthy’s committee began inquiries into the United States Army, starting by investigating supposed communist infiltration of the Army Signal Corps laboratory at Fort Monmouth.