Key term for AQA GCSE History, used in America: Opportunity and Inequality (1920–1973).
The practice of making sensational, unsubstantiated accusations of treason or communist sympathies, named after Senator Joseph McCarthy.
McCarthyism appears in AQA GCSE History revision content for Period Studies, especially America: Opportunity and Inequality (1920–1973) and Post-war Society and Economy.
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