8E+McCarthyism

=McCarthyism: The Red Scare=



Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo stands trial before the HUAC after being blacklisted as a Communist supporter.

(top) Senator Joseph McCarthy, the man responsible for the accusations of members of the government and army as Communist sympathizers.

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Timeline

 * 1908 || Joseph McCarthy is born near Appleton Wisconsin ||
 * 1946 || McCarthy gains Wisconsin Senate seat ||
 * 1947 || House Un-American Activities Commitee (HUAC) formed to dissuade communism by placing known communists on a blacklist. People on the blacklist would not be hired. ||
 * 1949 || Russia tests its first nuclear weapons ||
 * February 12, 1950 || Senator McCarty first blames Communism in the U.S. for foreign policy problems. ||
 * 1950 || The HUAC proposed six bills which became laws related to Communists. Communist organizations had to register their members and Communists were deprived of passports and ||
 * 1952 || McCarthy reelected, although an investigative commitee had disproved his claims about communists. ||
 * early 1950s || the term "red scare" is coined to describe a large-scale panic concerning communist infiltration of the government ||
 * 1954 || McCarthy accuses the army of "coddling" communist suporters. ||
 * 1954 || Hearings are held by Senate, shown on nationwide television broadcasts, discredit McCarthy's claims. ||
 * December 1954 || McCarthy is officially censured by the U.S. Senate. ||
 * 1957 || McCarthy dies of alcohol-related disease. ||

**Works Cited**
"The Cold War at Home" 2007. ABC-CLIO. May 15, 2007. 

"Lifestyles." 2007. Discovery Education United Streaming. May 16, 2007. 