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Topic: McCarthyism Person: Corrine Kaplan (My Mother) on her Grandfather.

During Much of the first half of the Cold-War between The United States and The Soviet Union, many people were acused of being communists for no reason, and with absolutly no evidence to back up these claims. These acusations are due to a Wisconsin Republican Senator, Joseph McCarthy.

McCarthy was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, not far from appleton. He lived a normal conservative farm life, in the middle of well nowhere. He served in the United States Marine Corps. McCarthy was elected to the U.S senate in 1946.

McCarthy is most famous for starting "McCarthyism". It was being terrorfied of communists. During the Cold war, if someone called you a Communist, a Red, and anything that infured you to being a communist, you were basicly dead in society. It was the absolute worst thing you could call someone. Being called a "Red" would ruin ones carrer, possibly the person would reseave threats, or even be tried for conspiracy in a court of law, FOR NO REASON. And may i add many of these claims had absolutly no evidence to back them up. If you were called a Communist, you business would go bankrupt, you would lose all your friends, would be absolutly unable to find a job anywhere. Joe McCarthy single handedly Ruined countless lives.