Joseph Welch confronts Sen. Joe McCarthy: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”

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  Lesson 3: The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy

  A freshman senator from Wisconsin, Joseph R. McCarthy, shocked the country in 1950 when he claimed to possess evidence that significant numbers of communists continued to hold positions of influence in the State Department. In this lesson students will learn about McCarthy's crusade against communism, from his bombshell pronouncements in 1950 to his ultimate censure and disgrace in 1954.

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  Anticommunism in Postwar America: Interactive Timeline of the early Cold War years

  A timeline of the events of the early Cold War years. Can be used in conjunction with the EDSITEment We The People curriculum unit: Anticommunism in Postwar America, 1945-1954: Witch Hunt or Red Menace?

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