Joseph Mccarthy: Communism In The United States

Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. Republican Senator for the U.S. State Department. In 1946 Joseph McCarthy, who was one of the youngest to run for office, was elected to the U.S State Department and was reelected in 1952. When he was reelected he had more power to integrate witness that they said was a blatant violation of their civil rights. Because of this act more than 2,000 government employees lost their job. McCarthy was a chair member of the Senate’s subcommittee. He took on various tasks but one that stood out the most was the investigation of the 205 communist members that he said were “working and shaping policy” in the U.S State Department. This was later known as the “Red Scare”. When McCarthy was reelected in 1952 he became the chairman of the Senate's Committee on Government Operations, where he worked as an anti-communist, investigating and question those who are suspected.
McCarthy spent over 5 years trying to expose communist that were in the U.S Government. These hostile tactics lead to the prosecution of innocent people was later known as “McCarthyism”. McCarthy's charges were leading to affecting more powerful people that included the president during that time. The president, Dwight Eisenhower, conducted a hearing for McCarthy that lead to a question that is still famous to this day. Army Joseph Nye Welch asked McCarthy”Have you no sense of Democracy, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” In these Army-McCarthy trials it went national, it showed other americans how McCarthy was intimidating and evasive response questions to his witnesses. After the trial of McCarthy was stirpped from chairmanship, because of his “vulgar, and insulting” conduct, he was also disapproved on the Senate floor and had lost all of his