MCCARTHYISM

DEFINITION

• Making false claims
• Accusing people of treason
• Most times with no evidence

WHO WAS MCCARHTY

• Senator (R) Wiscosin
• 1947-1957 in office
• Beilved communist sympathizers were in u.s government
• Started this theory, because afraid of losing the election
• Accused 205 members of state dept.

WHY ASSOCIATED WITH COMMUNIST?

• KGB is known to make absurd arrest
• Literature and propaganda
• The Red Scares