WORLD WAR II
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WORLD WAR II
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Question
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How many secret agents were uncovered by McCarthy’s accusations and investigations?
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7
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23
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74
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -It was the Truman Administration’s State Department that McCarthy accused of harboring 205 (or 57 or 81) “known Communists".
Detailed explanation-2: -The televised hearings lasted for 36 days and an estimated 80 million people saw at least part of the hearings.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
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