McCarthyism and the Red Scare : A Reference Guide

by Walker, William T.

• ISBN13: 9781598844375
• ISBN10: 1598844377
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-03
• Publisher: Abc-Clio Inc

Summary

Intolerance in America that targets alleged internal subversives controlled by external agents has a storied history that stretches hundreds of years. While the post-World War II "Red Scare" and the emergence of McCarthyism during the 1950s is the era commonly associated with American anticommunism, there was also a "First Red Scare" that occurred in 1919-1920. In both time periods, many Americans feared the radicalism of the left, and some of the most outspokenlike McCarthyused slander to denounce their political enemies. The result was an atmosphere in which individual rights and liberties were at risk and hysteria prevailed. McCarthyism and the Red Scare: A Reference Guide tracks the rise and fall of Senator Joe McCarthy and the broad pursuit of domestic "Red" subversives in the post-World War II years, and focuses on how American society responded to real and perceived threats from the left during the first decade of the Cold War.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Chronology	p. xvii
America and the Left: The First Red Scare and the Pre-Senatorial Years of Joseph R. McCarthy	p. 1
The Red Scare after World War II and McCarthy's Early Years in the Senate	p. 15
Wheeling and the Emergence of McCarthyism	p. 39
Benton, Eisenhower, and McCarthy	p. 61
The Decline of McCarthy and McCarthyism	p. 83
Biographies	p. 99
Dean Acheson	p. 99
Elizabeth T. Bentley	p. 101
Whittaker Chambers	p. 103
Roy Cohn	p. 106
Ralph E. Flanders	p. 109
Alger Hiss	p. 111
J. [John] Edgar Hoover	p. 113
Owen Lattimore	p. 115
Joseph R. McCarthy	p. 117
Edward Roscoe Murrow	p. 120
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg	p. 122
Joseph Nye Welch	p. 124
Harry Dexter White	p. 125
Primary Documents	p. 129
Establishment of the Special House Committee for the Investigation of Un-American Activities [The Dies Committee], May 26, 1938	p. 129
J. Edgar Hoover Warns of the Threat from American Communists, October 28, 1945	p. 130
Truman Loyalty Oath, March 21, 1947	p. 131
Taft-Hartley Act, June 23, 1947	p. 135
The Waldorf Statement, December 3, 1947	p. 136
Speech by Sen. Joseph McCarthy to the Women's Republican Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950	p. 137
Truman Letter to Sen. Millard Tydings on Disclosure of Employees, March 28, 1950	p. 142
Truman's Presidential News Conference, March 30, 1950	p. 146
ôDeclaration of Conscience,ö Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine), June 1, 1950	p. 150
Excerpt from Appeals Trial of Alger Hiss, October-December 1950	p. 154
McCarthy's Attack on George C. Marshall, June 14, 1951	p. 157
Army-McCarthy Hearings, June 4, 1954	p. 162
The Communist Control Act, August 24, 1954	p. 166
Censure of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, December 2, 1954	p. 167
Annotated Bibliography	p. 169
Index	p. 197
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