The American Communist Party was formed in 1919 when the Socialist Party expelled 20,000 workers who supported the Soviet Government. Thus began the Red Scare period. Woodrow Wilson worried about the communists and his Attorney General, Mitchell Palmer, arrested 10,000 suspected communists, now called the “Palmer Raids”, however, there was no evidence of the proposed revolution. During World War II, the United States and Soviet Union were wartime allies,

In April 1954, he accused the Secretary of the Army of concealing foreign espionage activities. To counter this, the secretary said that members of McCarthy’s staff had threatened army officials in efforts to obtain preferential treatment for a former unpaid consultant of the subcommittee who had been drafted (Simkin, Joseph). After many public hearings, McCarthy and his aides were cleared. However, in a motion of censure against him, the senate voted to condemn him for contempt of the Senate elections subcommittee that had investigated his conduct and financial affairs in 1952, abuse of certain Senators, and insults to the senate itself during the censure proceedings (Rovere). His financial situation was that all of that money that he had gotten from supporters to fight the communism, instead went into his pocket, and he was living off of their money.

and the Communist Party’s membership rose to 75,000. However after the war, the Alien Registration Act was used to arrest twelve of the Party’s leaders. It was illegal “to advocate, abet, or teach the desirability of overthrowing the government.” The Prosecution also used testimonies of former members as evidence(Simkin, Commu). Americans should realize, Browder believes, that “the only solid representatives of Stalin among the American Communists were a little band of old ‘old timers,’ occupying strategic posts in the party apparatus. For them communism was a religion, Stalin was Mohammed and Moscow was Mecca.”(“Kansas City Times”)

Joseph McCarthy was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, and educated at Marquette University. He practiced law in Wisconsin until 1939, when he was elected circuit court judge. During World War II he served in the U.S. Marine Corps, becoming a Captain during his service in the Pacific. In 1946 he was elected on the Republican ticket, as Wisconsin’s senator. McCarthy was not popular until he made a speech in February 1950, claiming that the State Department was “infested” with

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