WORLD WAR II
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WORLD WAR II
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President Roosevelt
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Senator Truman
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President Hoover
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Senator McCarthy
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Detailed explanation-1: -McCarthy’s involvement in these issues began publicly with a speech he made on Lincoln Day, February 9, 1950, to the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling, West Virginia. He brandished a piece of paper, which he claimed contained a list of known communists working for the State Department.
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: -On February 11, 1950, two days after his Wheeling Speech, Senator McCarthy sent a telegram to President Truman. In this telegram, McCarthy asserted that he had names of fifty-seven State Department officials with Communist ideologies working against the interest of the United States.