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McCarthyism:
In 1949 the Red Scare intensified, the Soviet Union successfully tested the atomic bomb, and China converted to communism. This meant that the U.S. was losing the Cold War. Joseph McCarthy was a Senator that feared Communist spies and asked Congress to pass the Internal Security Act called the McCarran Act, that required all Communist Party organizations to publish their records and register with U.S. attorney general. McCarthy distributed a book called "The Party of Betrayal" and his tactic of damaging reputations with vague and unfounded charges was known as McCarthyism. In 1954 McCarthy looked for Soviet Union spies in the U.S army and after that there was a lot of problems that lead to the Senate passing a vote to censure, or disapproval against him. Still in Senate, McCarthy lost influence and died in 1957.



Life During Cold War:
The Red Scare had a spread of nuclear weapons that impacted Americans in 1950. Americans feared nuclear attacks from the Soviet Union and Communism, so some prepared for attack and some went into politics. Writers tried to get people to listen and the U.S was upset about testing the H-Bomb but so did we. We built shelters for when the Soviet Union attacks instead of dying of fallout (radiation).

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