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    mccarthyism


    1. Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism are obvious examples of the worst Cold War hysteria


    2. General Dwight Eisenhower, former commander of all Allied forces in Europe in World War II, was a very popular president from 1952-60, a conservative (though not by today's standards) but not fanatic, anti Communist but also somewhat against McCarthyism


    3. He even defended Alger Hiss, a diplomat smeared as a Soviet spy by Nixon, an enormously brave act in the middle of McCarthyism


    4. until the “red scare” of McCarthyism in the mid-twentieth century,


    5. What do you think the ‘war on terror’ is today? It is simply the same old corrupt McCarthyism of the 1930’s regurgitated and permutated into a different flavour-of-the-month


    6. As pernicious as HUAC and the FBI were during the early 1950s in the pursuit of those alleged to have Communist leanings, the hunt for “pinkos” and Communist sympathizers reached its zenith with the rise of McCarthyism as practiced by Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who used his chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Government Operations as his personal stage to launch attacks on citizens, in places both high and low, as being “soft on Communism


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    "mccarthyism" definitions

    unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists)