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During the period of the cold war, there was fear of the infiltration of communism in the United States. Joseph Raymond McCarthy, a Republican United States' senator from the state of Wisconsin, used this scare (also known as red scare) to torture people within and outside the government. McCarthy came to the national stage by a speech he made in 1950 that he had names of some communists inside the government who are manipulating the policies of government but investigation followed find none.