Question

Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy delivered a speech on February 9, 1950, to an audience in Wheeling, West Virginia, noting that a list of 205 people had been submitted to the secretary of state. The individuals on the list, he said, were members of the Communist party who were working for the State Department to shape policy. McCarthy never delivered the list, however, and the number of individuals accused varied widely. Please answer the following question in two to three paragraphs.

Answer 1

Being the senator from Wisconsin and while delivering an oration to Pro-republic women’s group in West Virginia, Joseph McCarthy claimed that he owned a list of individuals who were communists and they worked in various state departments.

That was a lie as he had not possessed such a list and he was charged for this wrong doing. The senate passed a vote of censure against him. It was done in order to impair the reputations and created anxieties regarding the spread of communism.

He claimed a list of communists who were working in various state departments and this instigated investigations. It created Red scare among the people of America as they started to become apprehensive that communism is going to get spread in America.