McCarthyism

McCarthyism was a campaign against people accused of being communists. Americans feared communists because it was during the early 1950s, the height of the Cold War when the Soviets set off their first bomb. Since they feared the communists, those who were accused, were at the Senate held hearings and were blacklisted. McCarthyism was a period of time in which Americans could not believe what they wanted to believe. Usually men fight with their sleeves rolled and Joseph McCarthy, a master of media, believed that what he was doing was an effective way to defend American culture, which is why he described McCarthyism as “Americanism with its sleeves rolled.” For this, he is considered a emotive dictator who engages in demagoguery. In his opinion, suspected communists were criminals and it was not injustice to him at all to accuse men without any evidence.