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As you saw in earlier chapters, there had always been a strong anti-Communist feeling in the USA. After the Second World War this was at its most intense.
Senator Joseph McCarthy heightened the anxiety by alleging that the Soviet Union had a conspiracy to get Communist sympathisers into key positions in American life. He said that Communists had infiltrated American society. He claimed he had discovered 57 Communists in the State Department alone. From 1950 to 1954 he led a ‘witch hunt’ to find these Communist sympathisers. The government was suspicious of McCarthy, but in the furiously anti-Communist period it didn’t want to appear to be resisting him so for four years McCarthy wielded enormous power in the USA. (You can find out a lot more about American anti-Communism in this period on pages 373–75).
Anti-Communism in the USA
As you saw in earlier chapters, there had always been a strong anti-Communist feeling in the USA. After the Second World War this was at its most intense.
Senator Joseph McCarthy heightened the anxiety by alleging that the Soviet Union had a conspiracy to get Communist sympathisers into key positions in American life. He said that Communists had infiltrated American society. He claimed he had discovered 57 Communists in the State Department alone. From 1950 to 1954 he led a ‘witch hunt’ to find these Communist sympathisers. The government was suspicious of McCarthy, but in the furiously anti-Communist period it didn’t want to appear to be resisting him so for four years McCarthy wielded enormous power in the USA. (You can find out a lot more about American anti-Communism in this period on pages 373–75).
Anti-Communism in the USA
As you saw in earlier chapters, there had always been a strong anti-Communist feeling in the USA. After the Second World War this was at its most intense.
Senator Joseph McCarthy heightened the anxiety by alleging that the Soviet Union had a conspiracy to get Communist sympathisers into key positions in American life. He said that Communists had infiltrated American society. He claimed he had discovered 57 Communists in the State Department alone. From 1950 to 1954 he led a ‘witch hunt’ to find these Communist sympathisers. The government was suspicious of McCarthy, but in the furiously anti-Communist period it didn’t want to appear to be resisting him so for four years McCarthy wielded enormous power in the USA. (You can find out a lot more about American anti-Communism in this period on pages 373–75).
Anti-Communism in the USA
As you saw in earlier chapters, there had always been a strong anti-Communist feeling in the USA. After the Second World War this was at its most intense.
Senator Joseph McCarthy heightened the anxiety by alleging that the Soviet Union had a conspiracy to get Communist sympathisers into key positions in American life. He said that Communists had infiltrated American society. He claimed he had discovered 57 Communists in the State Department alone. From 1950 to 1954 he led a ‘witch hunt’ to find these Communist sympathisers. The government was suspicious of McCarthy, but in the furiously anti-Communist period it didn’t want to appear to be resisting him so for four years McCarthy wielded enormous power in the USA. (You