Theme: McCarthyism should be looked on not through the image of one man but as a period of anticommunist hysteria that preceded and survived McCarthy himself. The lasting legacy of this period was ruined lives, a conservative domestic policy, and the abandonment of a flexible foreign policy in favor of a simplistic bipolar view of good (capitalism) v. evil (communism).

-- Wheeling West Virginia Speech (1950)

-- Charges of Treason

-- Focus on Truman Administration

ð Loyalty Board

-- Why? There is no single answer.

ð Ideology

ð An Opportunity

ð Perception of Communist Tide

-- Fear and Paranoia

-- Anti-Communism=Anti-Liberalism

Liberalism Under Attack

-- Liberalism's Communist Dilemma

ð Liberal Failure to Defeat Totalitarianism

ð Liberal Flirtation with Communism

-- Anti-Communism--A New Conservative Populism

ð Depression Era Roots

ð Postwar

-- Alger Hiss Controversy

ð Whittaker Chambers

-- Turning on Truman:

ð Domestic Policy

-- Foreign Policy: Who Lost China?

-- What's a Liberal to Do with Communism?

ð Hard Line Victory

-- NSC-68 and Korea

-- Legacy: Attack on Free Speech, Association, and Ideas

ð Foreign Policy

ð Domestic Policies