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Instigating this fear was Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy was a Republican senator from Wisconsin and was the leader behind the ethos of McCarthyism. The term was created in 1950 by Washington Post writer Herbert Block.
In 1950, Joseph McCarthy appeared on the anti-communist scene. In a speech at Wheeling on February 9, 1950, he attacked Dean Acheson, the Secretary of State, and revealed a list of known Communists in the State Department.