McCarthyism-+Rasheed+and+James

vvvvvvvMcCarthyism- This term comes from general McCarthy a senator from Wisconsin, He made so many accusations about communist that they came up with a term for him McCarthyism General McCarthy claimed that there were communist in the US government. He started out only blaming Democrats of being communist but then expanded his accusations to many different people in the US government 205 to be exact. he started targeting military officials and even tried to blame president truman of being a communist. due to McCarthys accusations many government officials lost their jobs. Russias advance of communism through out all of eastern Europe only made conditions in america worse people were paniking thinking they were going to be attacked by commies. McCarthy did not only target people he also critisized all non American books in libraries.

1950- McCarthy makes speech claiming there are communist in the US government 1950- People started to recognize McCarthy and listened to what he said 1952-Senator McCarthy was easily realected for his second term 1954- McCarthy started to accuse the US army 1954- the american people realized that mcCarthy was a liar and he started to lose power

Agenda- James will find facts and Rasheed will start our power point and Video. 5/25 McCarthy's Support in Gallup Polls[|[85]]||~ Date ||~ Favorable  ||~ No Opinion  ||~ Unfavorable  ||~ Net Favorable  || [|Transcript: "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy" - Edward R. Murrow, See It Now, CBS Television, March 9, 1954] via UC Berkeley library
 * **1951 August** || 15 || 63 || 22 || −7 ||
 * **1953 April** || 19 || 59 || 22 || −3 ||
 * **1953 June** || 35 || 35 || 30 || +5 ||
 * **1953 August** || 34 || 24 || 42 || −8 ||
 * **1954 January** || 50 || 21 || 29 || +21 ||
 * **1954 March** || 46 || 18 || 36 || +10 ||
 * **1954 April** || 38 || 16 || 46 || −8 ||
 * **1954 May** || 35 || 16 || 49 || −14 ||
 * **1954 June** || 34 || 21 || 45 || −11 ||
 * **1954 August** || 36 || 13 || 51 || −15 ||
 * **1954 November** || 35 || 19 || 46 || −11 ||

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