Joseph Raymond McCarthy (14. listopadu 1908 – 2. května 1957) byl americký republikánský politik, senátor za stát Wisconsin od roku 1947 až do své smrti.
JosephMcCarthy, U.S. senator who lent his name to McCarthyism. He dominated the U.S. political climate in the early 1950s through his sensational but unproven charges of communist subversion in high government circles.
Did Joseph McCarthy cause the Red Scare of the 1950s?Despite being the popular face of the Red Scare that followed World War II, Joseph McCarthy did not start it. Congress and the American public widely supported anticommunist security measures in 1948 and 1950, due to contemporary anxieties after the rise of Communist China, the Korean War, and the Alger Hiss trial, among other factors.How did Joseph McCarthy’s anticommunist rhetoric impact the LGBTQ+ community?Joseph McCarthy framed the Cold War ideological struggle in terms of Christian morality and immoral “communistic atheism.” Throughout the early 1950s, his crusade against communist immorality was accompanied by a government-mandated purge of federal employees deemed national security threats on account of their “perverted” sexual orientation. The effects would linger long after the McCarthy era.Why did Joseph McCarthy’s influence decline?In 1953 Joseph McCarthy accused the U.S. Army of harbouring communist subversives. The Army then submitted a report alleging that McCarthy’s attorney had improperly pressured the Army secretary into giving preferential treatment to a McCarthy associate. McCarthy disputed the Army’s claims, and an ensuing 1954 Senate investigation exposed McCarthy’s lies and tactics on national television.
Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. [1 ] He alleged that numerous communists and Soviet spies and…
2. 5. 2012Bethesda (Maryland, USA) - Jako zuřivý antikomunista se do historie zapsal americký republikánský politik JosephMcCarthy. Svou hvězdnou kariéru, která díky atmosféře prosycené studenou válkou, jadernou hrozbou a strachem z komunismu jen…
Nositel dvou oscarových nominací Michael Shannon si zahraje kontroverzního amerického senátora JosephaMcCarthyho v životopisném snímku McCarthy, který v angličtině natočí Václav Marhoul.