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    Shortly after World War II, Congress' House Committee on Un-American Activities began investigating Americans across the country for suspected ties to communism. The most famous victims of these witch hunts were Hollywood actors, such as Charlie Chaplin, whose "Un-American activity" was being neutral at the beginning of World War II. By the late 1950s, the hysteria had waned, recognized in large measure as an overreaction. Another factor was the disrepute the Red Scare fell into because of the antics of Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy had made waves in 1950 by telling the Republican Women's Club in Wheeling, West Virginia that he had a list of dozens of known communists working in the State Department. The political theater helped Senator McCarthy become the most prominent anti-communist crusader in the government, and the Rosenberg case only further emboldened him. McCarthy continued to claim he held evidence suggesting communist infiltration throughout the government, but anytime he was pressed to produce his evidence, McCarthy would not name names. Instead, he'd accuse those who questioned his evidence of being communists themselves. McCarthy's rise made it possible for him to continue lobbing accusations against people, but the Senator finally met his match when he went after the Army. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, McCarthy summoned decorated World War II veterans and challenged their loyalty, and when he openly suggested World War II hero Brigadier General Ralph W. Zwicker was a communist during one hearing, the military had enough. In April 1954, the committee hearings were widely televised, and Americans watched Army members demand that McCarthy name names and provide evidence. On June 9, 1954, McCarthy was humiliated by the Army's legal representative, Joseph Nye Welch, who repeatedly demanded that McCarthy produce the list of alleged communists in the US Army. As McCarthy tried to wiggle out ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/079874/bk_acx0_079874_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Unmasking the Duke's Mistress (Mills & Boon Historical) (Gentlemen of Disrepute Book 1): ab 2.79 €
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    A Dark And Brooding Gentleman (Mills & Boon Historical) (Gentlemen of Disrepute Book 2): ab 2.79 €
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    His Mask Of Retribution (Mills & Boon Historical) (Gentlemen of Disrepute): ab 2.79 €
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    Castonbury Park: Ladies of Disrepute: ab 4.51 €
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    Mistress To The Marquis (Mills & Boon Historical) (Gentlemen of Disrepute): ab 2.79 €
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    Dicing With The Dangerous Lord (Mills & Boon Historical) (Gentlemen of Disrepute): ab 2.79 €
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    The Gentleman Rogue (Mills & Boon Historical) (Gentlemen of Disrepute): ab 2.79 €
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    The Lost Gentleman (Mills & Boon Historical) (Gentlemen of Disrepute): ab 2.79 €
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    Food as a Mechanism of Control and Resistance in Jails and Prisons - Diets of Disrepute: ab 35.99 €
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