McCarthyism is an episode of the American history

McCarthyism is an episode of the American history also known under the name of " Red Scare " and qualified frequently as witch hunt. It extends from 1950, with the appearance of senator Joseph McCarthy on the front of the American political scene, to 1954, the vote of censure agaisnt McCarthy. During two years (1953/1954), the committee, chaired by McCarthy, pursued possible agents, activists or communist sympathizers in the United States, in an anticommunist atmosphere. By simplicity, the expression is sometimes used in a wider sense. It indicates then all the investigations and the repression intrigues by American parliamentary committees about the communists, their sympathisers or supposed such, so including those led by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) from 1946.

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