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What is McCarthyism?


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McCarthyism describes the intense anti-communist suspicion in the US in a period from the late 1940s to the late 1950s.

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McCarthyism is the politically motivated practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. No need to fear, ChaCha's here!

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Mccarthyism:1:unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists).

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The term McCarthyism has come to mean the use of reckless and unfair accusations in the name of supressing political disloyalty.

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McCarthyism: a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the U.S. government and other institutions carried out...MORE?

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McCarthyism is a term describing the intense anti-communist suspicion in the United States.(more?)

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