Joseph McCarthy was was born in 1908 in the Town of Grand Chute in Outagamie County, Wisconsin. McCarthy was an American Politician who served as a U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until 1957. McCarthy died on May 2, 1957 the cause for his death was acute hepatitis. In the 1950’s, the Red Scare was fueled by right-wing charges concerning American communists, communist sympathizers, citizens who were thought to be unwittingly assisting the communist native attempts to achieve social justice. The reason for the Red Scare was that Communist agents were infiltrating US and the government, the educational system, the entertainment industry and other important social institutions that set policy and shaped public attitudes and beliefs. The Red Scare reached its peak in 1954, when
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His popularity began to decrease when McCarthy hired a man named J.B. Matthews as his director of research in June of 1953. According to “McCarthy’s Downfall,” “Matthews published an article called ‘Reds in our churches’ in the conservative American Mercury, where he referred to the Protestant clergy as ‘the largest single group supporting [Communism]”. Not only was the public angry at McCarthy’s research director, J.B. Matthews, they were angry with Joseph McCarthy. This particular incident was the beginning of McCarthy’s fall in power.
Throughout Joseph McCarthy’s unsuccessful leadership in America as US Senator of Wisconsin, his accusations of the secretary of the army holding communist espionage, and his attack on the army earned him distrust from U.S. citizens and the censure of the U.S. Senate. These actions carried forth by Joseph McCarthy caused the Red Scare to reach its peak, and the government, HUAC, to continue with further invagations. McCarthy entered American Politics with high popularity and in the end he had a fatal downfall in american support ended his career as an American
His popularity began to decrease when McCarthy hired a man named J.B. Matthews as his director of research in June of 1953. According to “McCarthy’s Downfall,” “Matthews published an article called ‘Reds in our churches’ in the conservative American Mercury, where he referred to the Protestant clergy as ‘the largest single group supporting [Communism]”. Not only was the public angry at McCarthy’s research director, J.B. Matthews, they were angry with Joseph McCarthy. This particular incident was the beginning of McCarthy’s fall in power.
Throughout Joseph McCarthy’s unsuccessful leadership in America as US Senator of Wisconsin, his accusations of the secretary of the army holding communist espionage, and his attack on the army earned him distrust from U.S. citizens and the censure of the U.S. Senate. These actions carried forth by Joseph McCarthy caused the Red Scare to reach its peak, and the government, HUAC, to continue with further invagations. McCarthy entered American Politics with high popularity and in the end he had a fatal downfall in american support ended his career as an American