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Mccarthyism at a Speech in Term Paper
Pages:5 (1533 words)
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Subject:Literature
Topic:Crucible
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President Eisenhower and his diplomats also chose to stop talking about the defeat of communism and instead focus on peaceful measures aimed at ending the "Cold War." And as the years passed, any attack on liberal thought which echoed "McCarthyism" automatically implied a paranoid and dysfunctional view of reality and placed the attacker in jeopardy. Congressionally, most of the members, both conservative and liberal, Republican and Democrat, considered the McCarthy era closed by the late 1950's despite several unpleasant episodes such as the Wherry Resolution (an attempt to stop Truman from sending troops to Europe or anywhere else without congressional approval) and the Bricker Amendment (aimed at preventing the "sellouts" of American interests during international summits like Yalta and Potsdam). As the 1960's came of age, the "Cold War" dragged on and the ramblings of Joe McCarthy faded away and were quickly replaced with the Cuban Missile Crisis and then Vietnam.
Bibliography
Cohn, Roy. McCarthy. New York: New American Library, 1968.
Hoover, J. Edgar. "House Committee on Un-American Activities." Investigation of Un-American Activities and Propaganda. March 26, 1947.
Lattimore, Owen. Ordeal by Slander. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950.
McCarthyism." Internet. 2005. Accessed March 21, 2005. http://www.spartacus.
A schoolnet.co.uk/USAmccarthyism.htm.
Reeves, Thomas C. The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy. Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1997.
Smith, Margaret Chase. Declaration of Conscience. New York: Doubleday, 1972.…
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Bibliography
Cohn, Roy. McCarthy. New York: New American Library, 1968.
Hoover, J. Edgar. "House Committee on Un-American Activities." Investigation of Un-American Activities and Propaganda. March 26, 1947.
Lattimore, Owen. Ordeal by Slander. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950.
McCarthyism." Internet. 2005. Accessed March 21, 2005. http://www.spartacus.
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