McCarthyism facts for kids
McCarthyism is the term describing a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in the United States that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the mid to late 1950s. The term gets its name from U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, a Republican of Wisconsin. The period of McCarthyism is also referred to as the Second Red Scare. It happened at the same times as increased fears of Communist influence on American institutions, espionage by Soviet agents such as the Rosenbergs, heightened tension from Soviet control over Eastern Europe, the success of the Chinese Communist revolution (1949) and the Korean War (1950-1953).
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American anti-communist propaganda of the 1950s, specifically addressing the entertainment industry
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One of the earliest uses of the term McCarthyism was in a cartoon by Herbert Block ("Herblock"), published in The Washington Post, March 29, 1950.
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J. Edgar Hoover in 1961
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Dalton Trumbo and his wife, Cleo, at the HUAC in 1947
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Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow
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In Spanish: Macartismo para niños