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Senator Joseph McCarthy during his week where he first announced his claims of communist infiltrators in the U.S government. His accusations mark the beginning of McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare.

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A political cartoon drawn by Herbert Block depicting Republican's turn to smear tactics in the face of the communist threat. The term McCarthyism was first coined in this cartoon.

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Senator Joseph McCarthy presenting to the U.S Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations. Here he accuses the U.S State Department of harboring 205 communists.

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Senator Joseph McCarthy giving a controversial speech over his claims of numbers of communists working in the U.S State department. Here he waves around a list containing the names of all 205 people who were accused of a being a communist.

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A political cartoon drawn by Herbert Block depicting previous statements and other claims McCarthy made that he now denies. This shows how absurd and baseless his claims were.

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Senator Joseph McCarthy and Senator Millard Tydings faceoff with one another over his claims. This occurred during the first days of McCarthy's hearing of 205 communists in the U.S State Department.

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Senator Joseph McCarthy listening to a committee hearing which voted to censure him. This ultimately made him irrelevant in the media soon after.

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A political cartoon drawn by Herbert Block depicting what McCarthyism had done to the Republican party. This illustrates how much damage had been done to the Republican party during McCarthy's career.