It was soon after WWII and the beginning of our cold war with Russia. The United States experienced a particularly extreme and severe period of anti-communism lasting roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. This period became known as ‘McCarthyism’, which is a time of fear and uncertainty when fundamental civil liberties were downtrodden under the guise of national security. In my opinion, both the threats from the domestic communism and the partisan politics played the important role in allowing and encouraging McCarthyism to spread. McCarthy and McCarthyism rose to prominence at a time when large numbers of Americans were in the fear of the beginning of the Cold War and the Communism. Thus, although most of McCarthy’s accusations