To fight the war of communism at home, programs like the Congressional Loyalty Program and the Civil Service Commission on Loyalty Review Board. Increasingly these programs began to ignore the rights of individuals, required members of Communist organizations to register with the attorney general and many were unfairly convicted as spies. Hollywood was also a target of the many investigations launched to root out communist sympathizers. In a downward spiral of paranoia, Congress also declared homosexuals were a security threat and dismissed many federal employees who were determined to be immoral. Senator Joseph McCarthy was a predominate figure in the fight to rid the United States of the threat of Communism and went on a crusade convicting communist spies like the
To fight the war of communism at home, programs like the Congressional Loyalty Program and the Civil Service Commission on Loyalty Review Board. Increasingly these programs began to ignore the rights of individuals, required members of Communist organizations to register with the attorney general and many were unfairly convicted as spies. Hollywood was also a target of the many investigations launched to root out communist sympathizers. In a downward spiral of paranoia, Congress also declared homosexuals were a security threat and dismissed many federal employees who were determined to be immoral. Senator Joseph McCarthy was a predominate figure in the fight to rid the United States of the threat of Communism and went on a crusade convicting communist spies like the