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Joseph R. McCarthy was the senator of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1957.

The McCarthy Era was named after Joseph.

It was a period of anticommunism also know as the second Red Scare.

Anticommunism is the opposition of a social structure in which property is commonly controlled.

McCarthy made an accusation that accused more than 200 "card carrying" communists had infiltrated the United States Government.

"I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five [people] that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department."

The Socialist Party of America was created in 1901 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1912, Eugene V. Debs received 900,000 votes in the Presidential Election of 1912.

Socialism refers to an economic system.

Communism refers to both economic and political system.

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