McCarthy Hearings
Katie Lootens
1954
~In 1954 Senator Joseph McCarthy began hearings concerning communism.
~In these years, everyone believed that everyone was a communist.
~If you were believed to be a communist, you were sent to a jury for them to decide if you were or not.
~If believed to be a communist, you lost everything.
*Back then, they believed everyone was guilty until proven innocent.
McCarthyism
McCarthyism "is a term used to identify accusations made of people being disloyal or Un-American without proper evidence"