Joseph McCarthy was a politician who served as a Republican Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1957. In January 1950, he realized that he would need a winning issue in order to be reelected in 1952 since he was known as an ineffective legislator in his first 3 years in the Senate. He then decided to charge that Communism was taking over the government. He accused others of being communists without giving specific evidence. His attacks were known as McCarthyism. "McCarthyism" is referred to the unfair tactic of accusing people of disloyalty without providing evidence since the 1950s. He claimed that he had the names of communists in the Senate though he never produced any. People who were accused of being communists suffered from the loss of employment, destruction of career, and imprisonment.Republicans didn't do much to stop McCarthy, hoping that they would win the 1952 election because of him. However, McCarthy's accusations against the U.S. Army resulted in nationally televised Senate investigation in 1954, which led to his downfall. His bullying of witnesses costed him public support. He was censured by the Senate for his improper conduct. He died from alcoholism three years later.
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