McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War, including Soviet espionage.

After World War II, the United States government felt threatened by its World War II ally, the U.S.S.R. From the end of World ...

I grew up in a home where that trauma hung in the air like smoke from the cigarettes chain-smoked by my mother — a civil ...

But news reports and McCarthy’s prepared text suggest that he painted a dark picture of the Cold War. The senator asserted that five years after winning World War II, the U.S. was losing around ...

The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy and its alleged failure to fight antisemitism. Even before the Trump/Musk ...

Sen. Joseph McCarthy The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wisconsin. The end of World War II saw the United States defeating two enemies -- Germany and Japan -- and gaining a new one, the Soviet Union.

During the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), in their hunt to weed out communist sympathizers, set their sights ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy (right) and Senator Karl Mundt (left) being interviewed by the media after initial discussions in the 36 days of the Army-McCarthy hearings in the Senate McCarthy’s most ...