McCarthyism

The Red Scare, also known as the Era of McCarthyism, spanned from 1950 to 1954, and was a movement of anticommunism that brought the United States through four years of domestic turmoil where individuals and organizations were tried incessantly for disloyalty to America through any and all support for communism. Initiated by lawyer and Republican Senator, Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism deeply disturbed the political, social, economical, and artistic normality of United States in the 1950s', however this essay will only explore the impact it had on the political scene.
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