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pantera1 [17]
4 years ago
12

What actions of Joseph McCarthy worsened the national hysteria about communism?

History
1 answer:
Verizon [17]4 years ago
6 0
- Congress set up House of Committer on Un-Acticities to look for Communists both inside and outside the Gov.

- Hollywood executives crated a list of some 500 people they thought werecommunist. These people's names were put on the blacklist

- Congress passed the McCarren Act, whivh outlawed the planning of any action that might lead to a totalitarian dictatorship in the USA.
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