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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.
McCarthyâs downfall finally began in October of 1953, when he started to investigate âcommunist infiltration into the military.â This was the final straw for then president Dwight D. Eisenhower, who realized that McCarthyâs movement needed to be stopped.