Oct 29, 2009 · Joseph R. McCarthy, a U.S. senator from Wisconsin, is best known for his high‑profile attempts to expose communists in the U.S. government during the 1950s.

Dec 19, 2024 · Joseph McCarthy framed the Cold War ideological struggle in terms of Christian morality and immoral “communistic atheism.” Throughout the early 1950s, his crusade against communist immorality was accompanied by a government-mandated purge of federal employees deemed national security threats on account of their “perverted” sexual ...

Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. [1] He alleged that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and ...

Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957) was an American lawyer and politician, famous for instigating and leading witch hunts against suspected communists in the 1950s. McCarthy was born in rural Wisconsin, the fifth of nine children to Irish working-class parents.

McCarthyism, name given to the period of the 1950s when Senator Joseph McCarthy produced a series of investigations and hearings in an effort to expose supposed communist infiltration of the U.S. government.

Communist expansion in Eastern Europe and Korea fueled Americans' anxiety that their way of life was under attack and launched the career of Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy.

Jun 1, 2010 · Another congressional investigator, U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (1908-57) of Wisconsin, became the person most closely associated with the anticommunist crusade–and with its excesses....