08.+The+Cold+War+at+Home+continued...

__**McCarthy and His "Witch Hunt" **__ -> Joseph McCarthy - famous anti-Communist activist, also Republican Senator. //__His Tactics__ // : +=+=+=+=+ THESE TACTICS BECAME KNOWN AS **MCCARTHYISM ** +=+=+=+=+=+ __Causes: __  __Effects:__
 * In order to be reelected McCarthy needed a winning issue that would bring up his reputation. So, he decided to sound the alarm about Communists in governments.
 * 1) 1. Taking advantage of people's concerns about communism.
 * 2) 2. Making one unsupported accusation after another. (He was always careful to do his name-calling only in the Senate, in where he was protected from being possibly sued.
 * 3) 3. Charged that the Democratic Party was guilty of "20yrs of treason" for allowing Communist infiltration.
 * 1) Soviets established Communist regimes in Eastern Europe after WW2 successfully.
 * 2) Soviets developed the atomic bomb faster than expected.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Korean War (ends).
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Republicans gain politically
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Americans were forced to take loyalty oaths and undergo investigations.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Decline of activism by labor unions. (Afraid of being disloyal)
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Many people hesitant to speak out on public issue (Fear of being accused...again.)
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Anti-communism continues to drive US foreign policy.

<span style="color: #ec22ad; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The Republicans did little to stop McCarthy's attacks because they believed they would win the 1952 presidential election if the public saw them doing what they did.

Finally, in 1954, McCarthy made a HUGE mistake. He started to make accusations against the US Army, which resulted in a nationally televised Senate investigation. So the Senate condemned him for improper conduct of bullying harmless witnesses, which caused him to lose his majority of public support.

Years later he died of alcoholism :(