Source A Senator Joseph R. McCarthy at the Army– McCarthy hearings in 1954
1 Study Source B and the article. What does Brogan mean by ‘a grey fog of timid conformity’?
On 9 February 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy announced to the Republican Women’s Club in Wheeling, West Virginia: ‘I have here in my hand a list of 205…members of the Communist Party…working and shaping policy in the State Department.’ The anti-Communist hysteria defined as McCarthyism predated this infamous moment. Its effects continued beyond McCarthy’s 1954 fall from grace and even the 1956 collapse of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) in the wake of Khrushchev’s criticisms of Stalin and the Soviet invasion of Hungary.
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