https://padlet.com/nvriens/c1e8nx6fdz7m send those commies back where they belong en-us 2017-09-14 12:10:50 UTC 2024-10-23 11:20:10 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rocket.png nvriens https://padlet.com/nvriens/c1e8nx6fdz7m/wish/187515754 A major impact of McCarthy's policies was the accusation of people in the workplace of being communists.]]> 2017-09-14 12:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nvriens/c1e8nx6fdz7m/wish/187515754 nvriens https://padlet.com/nvriens/c1e8nx6fdz7m/wish/187516056 The hunt for communists within the United States was labeled “McCarthyism.”]]> 2017-09-14 12:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nvriens/c1e8nx6fdz7m/wish/187516056 nvriens https://padlet.com/nvriens/c1e8nx6fdz7m/wish/187517375  In 1950, U.S. senator Joseph R. McCarthy (1909–1957) of Wisconsin began his infamous four-year witch-hunt of accusing Americans of being communists, or traitors to their countries.

]]> 2017-09-14 12:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nvriens/c1e8nx6fdz7m/wish/187517375 nvriens https://padlet.com/nvriens/c1e8nx6fdz7m/wish/187517942 He picked a ripe moment, February 1950, to claim he had a list of State Department employees (the numbers fluctuated—at times 205, or 57, or 81) steering foreign policy in a pro-Soviet direction.  

]]> 2017-09-14 12:24:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nvriens/c1e8nx6fdz7m/wish/187517942 nvriens https://padlet.com/nvriens/c1e8nx6fdz7m/wish/187518118 McCarthy's power to stir fears of creeping Communism was not entirely based on illusion, of course; the paranoid, real or pretended, always secretes its pearl around a grain of fact.]]> 2017-09-14 12:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nvriens/c1e8nx6fdz7m/wish/187518118 nvriens https://padlet.com/nvriens/c1e8nx6fdz7m/wish/187518320 On July 11, 1954, a fellow Republican, Senator Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont, introduced a resolution calling for McCarthy’s censure, and on December 2, after lengthy hearings, the Senate voted 67–22 to condemn him for behavior described as “contemptuous, contumacious, and denunciatory” and obstruction of justice.

]]> 2017-09-14 12:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nvriens/c1e8nx6fdz7m/wish/187518320 nvriens https://padlet.com/nvriens/c1e8nx6fdz7m/wish/187519730 The House Un-American Activities Committee was designed to remove all communists from government jobs. They handed out pamphlets called " One Hundred Things You Should Know About Communism in the U.S.A. It was to educate the people since most seen communism as a looming threat. This was propaganda even though this was a true attempt at informing the people. ]]> 2017-09-14 12:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nvriens/c1e8nx6fdz7m/wish/187519730