The document summarizes McCarthyism and the Red Scare in the United States during the 1950s. It describes how Senator Joseph McCarthy exploited widespread anti-Communist hysteria for political gain by making unfounded accusations of Communist infiltration. He targeted government employees, Hollywood figures, and others. Though initially popular, his tactics eventually lost credibility and public support as he made accusations that seemed unjustified.

1. McCarthyism & the Red Scare (Part II)

5. Here is the composite picture. Note the two original pictures below the composite. There is something disquieting to me that the very technique that Stalin used to place himself next to Lenin when he wasn’t in fact, there, was later used by McCarthyites to frame an honorable man, accusing him of being a secret Communist. It was a dark day for democracy. The former Communist is Earl Browder, expelled from the American Communist Party in 1946, after he took the position that Communism and Capitalism could peacefully coexist.

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