In the late 40s and early 50s the Chinese Nationalist forces under Chaing Kai-Shek fell to the Communist forces of Mao Zedong. This created a lot of fear in the American people. They witnessed almost all of China and Korea fall into communism. This created the Red Scare in which Americans started to become scared because they didn’t want to fall into communism as well. The Red Scare in which is what led into the creation of McCarthyism. McCarthyism used the Red Scare in many ways to provoke the American people. There are at least 2 reasons from the documents which show how the Red Scare created McCarthyism. One way was through Joseph McCarthy because he was popular, fame, and power hungry so he used Americans fear of communism to climb in those three categories. Another way was through putting fear in the minds of many Americans.
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This practice was created because of the Red Scare, people would accuse other people in their nation as “communist” without any evidence. In document 1 it states, “When a great democracy is destroyed, it will not be because of enemies from without, but rather because of enemies from within.” This quote means that democracy won’t fall due to outside of the country threats but due to the inside treats such as terrorists, spies, inside men, etc. who will send info about the country to the Communist countries. The info could help the Communist countries in taking over the country turning it into Red territory aka Communism. Therefore McCarthyism took place because so many people were scared of the Communist, they would then start accusing others of communism and the accused were forced to go to trial. People accused others for many of reasons; hate, weird activity, and much
This practice was created because of the Red Scare, people would accuse other people in their nation as “communist” without any evidence. In document 1 it states, “When a great democracy is destroyed, it will not be because of enemies from without, but rather because of enemies from within.” This quote means that democracy won’t fall due to outside of the country threats but due to the inside treats such as terrorists, spies, inside men, etc. who will send info about the country to the Communist countries. The info could help the Communist countries in taking over the country turning it into Red territory aka Communism. Therefore McCarthyism took place because so many people were scared of the Communist, they would then start accusing others of communism and the accused were forced to go to trial. People accused others for many of reasons; hate, weird activity, and much