McCarthyism

McCarthyism is defined as the sets of unsupported “communist” accusations made by republican senator Joseph McCarthy. At times, McCarty had claimed to have names of hundreds of “communists” within the State department. Although McCarthy made these claims, he never provided a single one of these names. McCarthy had also claimed that the Democratic Party was guilty of “20 years of Treason.” He claimed this was because they had allowed communists to infiltrate our government. McCarthy only claimed specific people of being communist within the senate, otherwise he could have been sued for slander. In 1954 McCarthy made accusations against the US army, which led to a nationally televised investigation on the senate. McCarthy improperly interrogated the “communist” whiteness, which lost him his public support. The senate condemned McCarthy of improper conduct which “tended to bring the senate into dishonor and disrepute.” In 1957 McCarthy died from alcoholism. After McCarthy died, the senate made it illegal to violently overthrough the government.