Today in class i lost my blog because my computer did not work. So me and Austin got this off of other peoples blogs. WE EVEN HAD THEM ON WORD AND IT FAILED!!!
Senator Joe McCarthy
The Second Red Scare
Happened after WW2.
Fear of communists
Was the big fear that communism would take over the world again.
People trialed
“McCarthyism”
McCarthyism
Started with the end of WW2 and the start of the cold war
“Red Scare”
anti-communists
McCarthy era
McCarthyism was where they would accuse someone of being communist although they really weren’t.
McCarthy’s involvement start February 9, 1950
He made a speech saying he had a list of 205 people that were thought to be linked to communist although some really weren’t.
McCarthyism
Is known for ridiculous trials
Investigated government departments
Passports taken away, jailed if refused to give names
Destroyed a lot of peoples carers
Mostly destroyed writers, entertainers, artists
Altogether he blacklisted 320 artists
Also attacked literature because he thought they were trying to give communist hints through their writing
The voice of the People
Few people known to stand against McCarthyism
Mort Sahl- comedian
Edward R. Murrow – reporter
Army McCarthy hearings
In the Fall of 1953.
Widely televised
Investigation Army Signal Corps
Announced search for alleged espionage ring
He was trying to attack General Ralph W. Zwicker
See it now, McCarthy and aide Roy Cohn demanded special for G. David Schine.. being held hostage to not exert pressure to expose communists in the ranks..
This lead to the end of what McCarthy was doing because this was the first time he had every really been beaten out in a trial
Popularity had been plummeting through the Army-McCarthy Hearings
McCarthy attacked a young legal aide of Joseph Nye Welch
Hearings grew to an inconclusive finish
Lost the chairmanship of the Government committee on Operations of the Senate.
He fought communists until his death
“pale ghost of his former self”
he suffered from cirrhosis of the liver
it’s said that he suffered from
he died from, acute hepatitis on May 2, 1957
He was replaced by a democrat
Jenna
Berlin Blockade and airlift
Berlin Blockade was June 24 1948 to May 24 to 1989
First major international crises of the cold war
Yalta Conference split Germany into four parts and Berlin into four parts
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