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It has been 70 years since Edward R. Murrow’s withering broadcast report about Cold War demagogue Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, a program that has been called television’s “finest half-hour.” ...

Joseph McCarthy The Post-Crescent ... themselves locked in a battle over the course of postwar events. The Cold War had begun. As the relationship between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. deteriorated ...

like whether Russia’s aggression against Ukraine indeed was such an immediate security threat for Sweden that it had to ditch the neutral status it enjoyed even during the Cold War?” ...

Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. Wikipedia* On the C ...

As the Cold War intensifies, McCarthy seizes the opportunity to exploit public fears of communism, framing himself as a defender of American democracy. Discover how his rise coincides with a ...

At the height of the Cold War, Canada joined its southern neighbour ... In the United States, Senator Joseph McCarthy led the communist witch-hunts in the 1950s. He convinced many Americans ...

This communist witch hunt therefore became known as ‘McCarthyism’. The term also refers to outlandish, sensationalist, unproven accusations of communist sympathy and connections. McCarthy's ...