The Red Scare (1950s).

1. HUAC investigated agencies with suspected Communist influence outside and inside the U.S. government.
2. Blacklist was a list of people who were suspected or had communistic backrounds and wince they were on the blacklist their carreers were ruined.
3. Alger Hiss was accused by Chambers to be associated with the Soviet Union. Chambers forged documents that got Hiss sent to jail even though he was innocent.
4. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, minor activists of the communist party, were implicated in the Fuchs case and therefore sentenced to death.
5. Joseph McCarthy, an anti communist Republican, wanting to be reelected went looking for an issue, that Communism was taking over the government.
6. McCarthyism was unsupported attacks on suspected communists. McCarthy made attacks on after the other.
7. In a paragraph, describe the motivations and actions of Joseph McCarthy during the 1950s. What prompted his actions? What did he do? What happened as a result of his actions?

Joseph McCarthy was a very popular anti-communist Republican. After 3 years in the Senate his reputation became known as an "ineffective legislator". Wanting to be reelected he went looking for an issue to so he could win. He decided that communism was taking over the government. he made many unsupported accusations towards people or groups that he suspected were communist which became known as McCarthyism. His motivations were not that he was against communism he mainly wanted to be known so he could be reelected. He accused things like the State Department, democratic party, and lastly the US army. When he accused the US army he lost public support and the Senate condemned him for improper conduct. Three years later he died from too much drinking a "broken man."