1 McCarthyism is named after the American politician Joseph McCarthy, who in the 1950s accused many Americans of being Communists.

2 In America in the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy led a witch-hunt against people suspected of being communists.

3 Nor did a demagogue emerge to match Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose cynical witch-hunts in the l950s put a generation on trial.

4 Joseph McCarthy,[] deprived him of his right to travel abroad.

5 Senator Joseph McCarthy was still hunting communists.

6 And, during the nineteen fifties, Senator Joseph McCarthy accused innocent people of being communists and traitors.

7 Republican senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, led the search for communists in America.

8 By 1957, Joseph McCarthy was becoming a problem. He was admitted to Bethesda Naval Hospital where, of course, he mysteriously died.

9 Yet he repeatedly criticized the actions of Senator Joseph McCarthy.

10 1954 - Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.

11 Originally coined to criticize the anti-communist pursuits of U. S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, "McCarthyism" soon took on a broader meaning, describing the excesses of similar efforts.

12 Alger Hiss had been convicted of perjury in a spying scandal, and Joseph McCarthy had made his famous I-have-here-in-my-hand-a-list-of-two-hundred-and-five-known-Communists speech.

13 Eisenhower was campaigning for president in Wisconsin in 1952, he shared a stage with Senator Joseph McCarthy.

1 McCarthyism is named after the American politician Joseph McCarthy, who in the 1950s accused many Americans of being Communists.