Topic: Joseph Mccarthy

Kennedy School "Founding Mother" Dies at 88

Edith M. Stokey '44 had a good memory. When the Harvard Kennedy School needed to compile a personnel database a few years ago, Stokey, though in...
Maryland Workers Compensation Attorney Thomas Patrick Ryan Named 2011 Maryland State Super Lawyer. . Super Lawyers magazine names Maryland workers'...

Municipal McCarthyism Revisited

Former mayor Larry O'Brien: A Zero-Means-Zero target. A new website has rekindled the debate about the lack of accuracy and ethics among some users...

Murray: Confront the truth

Most successful politicians develop the ability to not answer questions. There is a dizzying range of methods, including the addressing of a...
Rep. Peter King said Sunday he'll hold hearings on the "radicalization of the American Muslim community" - but some critics fear an anti-Islamic...

Important Events of the Cold War

For many, the strange alliances formed during World War II were a trade-off between threats. Post-war years would strain this tenuous bond, and the prolonged period of fear and distrust between the divergent systems of capitalism in the West (US, Britain, France ...

Joseph McCarthy

He became an iconic figure of the Cold War through a series of gestures against and investigations into Communists and domestic subversives now typically regarded as excessive and politically self-serving.In February, 1950 , McCarthy gave a speech in Wheeling , West Virginia in ...

1950s

The Fabulous Fifties was a decade between 1950 thru 1959 . [1] Senator Joseph McCarthy : A Republican senator from Wisconsin who believed there were many communist within the United States , this could not be proven at that time and he was censored by ...
Politicians and world leaders have long used fear as a communications tactic. In the 1950?s Senator Joseph McCarthy used fear of communism and secret communist infiltrators to create unreasonable fear among American voters. The German Jews he targeted were blamed for ...
It was 1950 when Senator Joseph McCarthy said President Harry Truman's State Department had been infiltrated by gays, likely even homosexual communists (As he believed all gays were communists) that kicked of the McCarthy Era gay witch hunts in America. It ...