During the 1950’s, A man named Joseph McCarthy, accused many people of secretly being communists. McCarthy turned many Americans against each other in an effort to get power for himself. Evidently, McCarthy was not the person to start the mass hysteria, as the fear of communism was spreading long before he came into office. According to “A Decade of Fear” paragraph 5 “ In 1917, soon after the Bolshevik revolution that would turn Russia into the Soviet Union, thousands of alleged communists in the U.S. were arrested and deported during what became known as the Red Scare.” As this shows, McCarthy did not start this chaos, but more that people were already scared enough that this drove them over the edge. This also allowed him to rise to a considerable
