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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.
Although the name McCarthyism is given to all of the anti-communist activities in the U.S. during the 1940 s and 1950 s, this is technically a misnomer because the Senator from Wisconsin did not start the movement. n the 1940's and 1950's, an anti-Communist movement swept the United States of America. Fueled by the anti-Communist actions of Congress, particularly a Senator from Wisconsin by the name of Joseph McCarthy, the movement escalated and many people lost their jobs as a result of various blacklists.