McCarthy had a list of people that were allegedly communist. In reality, most of them were nothing but alcoholics or drug addicts. Regardless, McCarthy pushed through and became the chairman of the government committee on the operation of the investigations. He continued the investigations for two years questioning many people in the government. During this panic, it became a witch-hunt of communist. Which became, known as “McCarthyism”. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy provoked the fear of The Red Scare in America by using and promoting the use of false accusations that drastically affected many lives.
The “Red Scare”, first occurred after World War I. The complex alliances that were formed with developing countries were the reason many countries