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Instigating this fear was Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy was a Republican senator from Wisconsin and was the leader behind the ethos of McCarthyism. The term was created in 1950 by Washington Post writer Herbert Block.
Senator Joseph McCarthy began investigating Communist subversion in  the United States in 1950. This action led to the Army-McCarthy  Hearings in 1954. This activities and m â¦ ethods involved during this  period would become known as McCarthyism.