Senator Joseph McCarthy and his Role in U.S. History and the "Red Menace"

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The Downfall of Joseph McCarthy
Senator Joseph McCarthy and his Role in U.S. History and the "Red Menace"
Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957), was an American politician who held the position of the Republican U.S. senator from the state of Wisconsin between the years of 1947 and 1957. Commencing in 1950, McCarthy turned out to be the most visible public face during the time when cold war tensions instigated fears of widespread Communist subversion ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "DOI" : "10.1109/MRA.2012.2221259", "ISSN" : "1070-9932", "abstract" : "John McCarthy is best known as one of the founding fathers of artificial intelligence (AI), a term he coined in 1955, and much has been written about his pioneering work in computer and cognitive science (Figure 1). Less attention has been given to McCarthy's efforts related to robotics, though his AI research instigated and influenced development in the field. As the founder of the Stanford-AI Lab (SAIL) and its director from 1965 to 1980, McCarthy participated in research on computer vision, speech recognition, and planning in robotics, collaborated with innovators such as Bernie Roth and Vic Scheinman to develop some of the first robot arms, and advised 30 students, a number of whom have gone on to become leaders in robotics and AI.", "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Sabanovic", "given" : "Selma", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" }, { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Milojevic", "given" : "Stasa", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" }, { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Kaur", "given" : "Jasleen", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issue" : "4", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2012" ] ] }, "page" : "99-106", "title" : "John McCarthy [History]", "type" : "article-journal", "volume" : "19" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=50c1c8af-b450-4e17-a8fc-72a979df5423", "/documents/?uuid=c6f9e807-e059-4471-9ba1-84ef743befa7" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(Sabanovic, Milojevic, and Kaur)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Sabanovic, Milojevic, and Kaur)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Sabanovic, Milojevic, and Kaur)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Sabanovic, Milojevic, and Kaur). These fears came to define, and to some extent corrode the era’s political culture. As for the majority of Americans, the enduring symbol of this "Red Menace" was McCarthy, the freshman senator from Wisconsin. He claimed to have sufficient evidence that a lot of communists continued to hold influential positions in the State Department. The hyper-suspicious atmosphere of the cold war coupled with insinuations of disloyalty was just enough to convince a majority of the Americans that their government was filled with spies and traitors. McCarthy accusations became so intimidating that only a few people spoke out against him.
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