HUAC’s targets included left-wingers in Hollywood and liberals in the State Department. On March 9, 1954, millions of Americans watched as the national news program "See It Now" attacked McCarthy and his methods.Īt the same time, the Republican-led House Un-American Activities Committee (known as HUAC) began a determined campaign to extirpate communist subversion at home. Murrow’s exposés of McCarthyism played an important role in the senator’s downfall. In 1950, North Korea’s Soviet-backed army invaded its pro-Western neighbors to the South in response, the United States entered the conflict on the side of South Korea.ĭid you know? Along with the Army-McCarthy hearings, journalist Edward R. Later that year, Communist forces declared victory in the Chinese Civil War and established the People’s Republic of China.
In August 1949, for instance, the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb. In the years after World War II ended, events at home and abroad seemed to many Americans to prove that the “Red menace” was real.
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