HIST 405N Week 7 Case Study Assignment; Option 1; McCarthyism and Anti-Communist Campaigns

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McCarthyism and Anti-Communist Campaigns Week 7 Case Study Chamberlain College of Nursing HIST405 Date McCarthyism and Anti-Communism McCarthyism was a period of time in America that Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy held a series of investigations as well as hearings in the 1950s hoping to expose suspected communists in various areas of the U.S. government. Atcher claims McCarthyism is the “name given to the period of time in American history that saw U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin produce a series of investigations and hearings during the 1950s in an effort to expose supposed communist infiltration of various areas of the U.S. government,” (2020). It caused an extreme scare among Americans which would result in ruined reputations and lost jobs. In this paper I will explain how Sen. Joseph McCarthy defined communist nations within his speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, specify the specific threats those nations posed, assess is McCarthy’s charges were accurate, analyze anti-communist sentiments during the Cold War era and if the sentiments were valid or not, explain if there are other examples of events similar to the Red Scare that have occurred throughout history and modern day, and examine what happened to people who invoked the Fifth Amendment, those who refused to appear, and those who were found in violation of the law as defined by the Congressional Committee. Communist Nations and Their Threats Sen. McCarthy believed that communist nations were “communist atheists.” He saw these nations as traitorous as well as only having one goal in mind, world destruction. He compares morality, religious beliefs, and o

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