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THE COLD WAR AND MCCARTHYISM

                   
READING COMPREHENSION:
       1.  Who was Joseph McCarthy?
Joseph was a Republican Senator,. 

       2. What were his politics?
He was a Republican Senator, elected  for the first time in 1946. He spent all his profesional life fighting against communism in US.

       3.  What were the first ocations he made?
In 1950 he gave a speech during which he showed the audience a piece of paper with a list of the names of 205 supposed active communists working in the State Department. hearing about these communists to be identified and remove from power.

       4.  Why do you think the American public believed him?
American public believed him because everything that has to do with communism was hated.

       5.  What did people did he to go on to accuse? What were the foundations of his accussations?
 McCarthy also accussed goverment employees, trade union activists and people in the   entertainment industry like Hollywood actors and directors . The foundations of his   accussations were that they were spies made with poor pieces of evidence.

       6.  How and why did the reaction of the American public change?
The reaction of the American public changed when his brutal interrogation methods were revealed in 1954. He was censured by the Senate for having abused his power as a senator.









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