Resolution


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=__**Resolution of McCarthyism**__= A lot of cause contributed to the upstart and end of McCarthyism. Both were slow and didn't happen all at once. Many believed that the issues that started it was the tensions between the U.S. and Soviet Union, the Cold War, and the struggle of our forces in the Korean War. The U.S. and Soviet Union were still enemies and the Cold War was still raging, however, the Korean War was just about finished. Also, there were key players in the Senate who were able to get their voice out and speak up against the wrong doings of Joseph McCarthy. All of these reasons contributed to the downfall of McCarthyism.

The most important thing that took McCarthy down was the voice of Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Senator Smith was one of the first to speak out about how wrong Joseph McCarthy was and that he needed to be stopped. Margaret Chase Smith was a Maine senator. Besides stopping McCarthyism, she was also well known for being the first woman to ever be in the Senate and the House. During McCarthy's trials and hearings, Margaret Chase Smith spoke out against him and got fellow senators to condemn him and censure him. It was McCarthy's arrogance that really brought him down. He provided the opportunity for Smith and the other senators to put him down. In January of 1954, after McCarthy had accused everybody in Hollywood, the State Department, government officials, and almost everyone else. He started to accuse the U.S. Army and President Eisenhower of being communist supporters. His main target was Robert Stevens, the Secretary of the Army. However, President Eisenhower stepped in and would not allow for the investigations of the army or himself. The illegal accusations now became more public and were written about in the papers. This was essentially what led to the senate hearings and the end of McCarthyism. Propaganda played an opposite role this time, working against McCarthy instead of for him. The hearings were nationally televised and the public now began to understand how wrong Joseph McCarthy really was. He became very unpopular, was removed of his seat as chairman of the Government Committee on Operations, and lost his fame. The vicious trials and investigations conducted by Senator Joseph McCarthy were finally put to an end. -Ben Nickerson

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