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McCarthyism

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McCarthyism
from U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy who acted out morbid fear of aliens, especially Communists. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 409]


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In the wake of the scandal, he called charges of anti-Semitism over the decades ``the tactic of McCarthyism updated for a new age.
Smith argues that although the Red Scare and McCarthyism ruined the lives of many black and white Americans, none has been as thoroughly erased as Canada Lee.
At that time, the height of McCarthyism, Oppenheimer was accused of being a Soviet spy and charged with trying to stop the development of the hydrogen bomb.
 
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