What Happened the Last Time a President Purged the Bureaucracy
The widespread political purges of the early 1950s echo clearly today. Seventy years ago, the reasonable pretext of hunting ...
Federal workers were targeted for loyalty during the Red Scare
President Harry S. Truman’s “loyalty checks” began with an executive order declaring that “there shall be a loyalty ...
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The New Red Scare: When Fear Becomes a Political Weapon
More than seven decades later, the legacies of the Red Scare have resurfaced in the United States – this time targeting China ...
The Media Spawned McCarthyism. Now History Is Repeating Itself
Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture ...
Another book about my grandfather Whittaker Chambers puts politics before historical accuracy
Out of 28 chapters, three concern the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers Case. The literature on this historical episode is sadly ...
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The Red Scare
In the United States, Senator Joseph McCarthy led the communist witch-hunts ... She and her family became a target for Quebecs Red Squads. "When I saw five strapping provincial police enter ...
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Post-war American society - AQA
This communist witch hunt therefore became known as ‘McCarthyism’. The term also refers to outlandish, sensationalist, unproven accusations of communist sympathy and connections. McCarthy's ...
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Anti-Communism c.1945-1954 - OCR A
Senator Joseph McCarthy (right) and Senator Karl Mundt (left) being interviewed by the media after initial discussions in the 36 days of the Army-McCarthy hearings in the Senate McCarthy’s most ...