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1 McCarthyism AP US History

2 Election of 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower - Republicans
Adlai E. Stevenson - Democrats

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4 Hollywood Ten Sent to prison for not cooperating with HUAC’s investigation

5 McCarthy’s “Witch Hunt”
nJoseph McCarthy – Republican from Wisconsin who said that Communists were infiltrating the government

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7 Edward R. Murrow

8 McCarthyism -often through unscrupulous methods
nAttacks on suspected Communists -often through unscrupulous methods

9 Army vs. Mccarthy -”Have you no decency?”
-McCarthy was condemned after attacking the U.S. Army -”Have you no decency?”

10 Joseph Welch Fred Fisher -formerly of Nat’l Lawyer’s Guild

11 Roy Cohn Private David Schine

12 McCarthy died of alcoholism

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