SHELF 9780435183127 HISTORY PAPER 3 THE COLD WAR AND THE AMERICAS (1945-1981) STUDENT 60p

of thc Canadian spy ring in 1945\ed to the uncovering of agents in the Unitecl States
and, furthermore, that this 1ed to the Soviet Union deactivaring many of its agents.
This sr,rggcsts that the Second Red Scare actually came rarher too late, after most of the
spying had come to an end.
One important aspect of the N4cCarthy era is thc',vay it lostered bipartisan politics.
According to Levine and Papasotiriou, rhe Rcpublicans in Congress were looking
for a wa1, to end the five consecutivc terms of a Democrat presidency and to
tarnish the reputation of the Truman adr-r-rinistratictn with allegations of being soft
on communism was one way to do this.' Once the b attle w as j oined b etw een McCarthy
ondtheTruman administration, it divided congress mainly alongpartisanlines,withthe
RepubLicanleadership in efcctusinghimto strike atthefite-tetm Democratic rule' (Levine and
Papasotiriou).
Dwight Eiscnhower won the prcsiclential election of 1952,beating Adlai Stevcnson,
Governor of Illinois, who had tried to win a sixth consecutive Democraric vicrory.
His campaign rvas weakened, however, by rvhat became known as K1C2 (Korea,
Communism, Corruption).
As we saw earlier, althor-rgh he dared not say so in public, Eisenhowcr had no tirle
frrr l\4ccarthy. Evcr-rtually, in 7954, Mccarthy went too far by accusins the arrny of
harbor-rring communists. At the hearings, rvhen.f oseph welch, the attorney acting for
the army, was accused by Mccarthy of having hired a young lawyer from the National
Lawyers' Guild, denounced by Mccarrhy as 'the legal bulwark oJ the Communist parly' ,
Welch famously said,'Letusnot assassinatethislad ary furthcr Senator.Youhave done enough.
Haw you no sense of decenq,, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decenq,?' (Levine and
I'apasotiriou). In December 1954, N4cCartl-ry rvas ccnsured by the Senate for'conduct...
unbecoming a Member of the tJnited States Senatc' (Zinn).
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new approach to containmelrt that, according to Gaddis, 'pofirayed the communists as a
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