【12/9 今日美史】麦卡锡主义
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12/9
McCarthyism
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The act is part of the Second Red Scare, when US society and particularly the government was afraid of a Communist invasion of the US. The period is also widely known as the McCarthy Era, a name derived from one of the movement’s biggest spokespersons, US Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Despite the alliance between the USSR and the US during the Second World War, tensions between the two countries emerged toward the end of the war. The tensions centered around the opposing social ideologies which signified the countries; the US symbolised capitalism and democracy, whereas the USSR was a firmly communist society. The USSR’s influence on Eastern Europe became a specific issue of tension, best defined when Winston Churchill described the ideological border between East and West Europe as an “iron curtain.”
The possibility that communist sympathies could arise within the US worried the government. In an attempt to root out Communist and socialist ideology within the US, the government enforced counter-measures. These ranged from loyalty and security reviews within the government itself, along with senate communities, and blacklists of people and companies suspected of communist ideology. What began as a government action quickly became a country-wide search for communists.
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McCarthyism, Second Red Scare (1947 to 1956), Joseph McCarthy, Harry Truman, Iron Curtain, USSR
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