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McCarthy Era
Era of Political Conformity and Loyalty
As World War II ended, Americans' fear of Germans and Japanese was transferred onto the communist
Soviet Union. Though the Soviets had been their allies during the war,
Americans began to see them as a threat. The Soviets had a nuclear bomb
and were aggressively expanding their influence into Europe and Africa.
China was soon taken over by communists.
The American Communist Party, other left-wing
organizations, and minority groups - including African-Americans, Native
Americans, and various immigrant groups - became targets of suspicion,
surveillance, and infiltration. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg's
trial and execution for conspiring to steal secrets of the atomic bomb
convinced many Americans that communist spies were among them.
Propaganda films such as "Red Nightmare" and "Duck and Cover" further fueled this anxiety. The Truman Doctrine of 1947 expanded the battle, authorizing financial support for foreign governments fighting communism. Domestically, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was charged with uncovering and identifying "anti-American" or "pro-communist" activities. A federal employee loyalty program
was instituted in 1947 to preclude the employment of "disloyal
Americans." Local governments, public institutions, and private
companies, as well as universities
and labor unions, quickly fell in line by instituting their own loyalty
programs and dismissing employees suspected of having ties to
communism. The FBI played a crucial part by conducting
surveillance, pressuring employers to hire or fire particular
individuals, and by feeding information to the media to influence public
opinion. J. Edgar Hoover created COINTELPRO,
a program designed to neutralize political dissidents by sowing seeds
of dissention within organizations and leaking derogatory information to
the media and law enforcement. The FBI also disseminated damaging
information on individuals to members of Congress to influence public
opinion about the communist threat. Sen. Joseph McCarthy's
anti-communist crusade, dating from 1950 and heightened during his
chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, rose to
legendary ferocity. Although Congress censured
the Wisconsin Republican in 1954, the legacy of fear and suspicion
McCarthy helped create lived on through the 1970's, as evidenced by FBI
surveillance of the civil rights movement and Vietnam era anti-war
demonstrations.
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trees down and power outages but no major damage. Emergency
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winds fell to tropical storm strength as it moved across the Southeast.
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