1. Joseph McCarthyism
Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. senator in the mid twentieth century, whose great fear of the rising communist party in both the Soviet Union and in America was reflected by a great deal of the country. ... McCarthy and many other republican politicians believed that the democratic party, along with President Harry S. Truman, were not harsh enough on the communist party and they strongly opposed Roosevelt's New Deal. ... Finally, the Communist takeover in China, the USSR's detonation of an atomic bomb in 1949, and the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 all led the U.S. to not only distrus...
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