What is mccarthyism and blacklisting?

Question

I just need to know what they are and just some info.

Answer 1

you should watch movie, "Goodnight and Goodluck"

Answer 2

McCarthyism is a process of accusing people of being communists. It first originated during the cold war with the soviet unionand there was a "red scare" in the US. Everyone accused each other of being communists. A board was set up to investigates this accusations and was led by senator mccarthy, who was a very ardent accuser and a lot of people were convicted and executed.
Blacklisting was putting peoples' names on a list as communists. A lot of hollywood people were accused of being communists and were blacklisted i.e put on mccarthy's list.

Answer 3

Joe McCarthy was a Republican senator from Wisconsin who got a lot of political mileage out of calling people Communists. He was not sincere. He did it only to advance his own career--to cash in on and expand the wave of fear over Communism after World War Two, and after Stalin had gotten the A bomb and dominated Eastern Europe. He was also a drunk, so his memory was not too good, so he got confused about who he was and was not accusing. He even accused the US Army of being infiltrated by Communists. Fortunately he died. The world is a better place without him.

Blacklisting was a system of keeping people accused of being Communists, or sympathetic to Communism, from ever working. Their names went on to a list and they never worked again. Again, this was almost completely irrational, it was done out of blind fear with no real need for it. A lot of innocent lives were hurt by it. The right wing has always wanted to return to those days, when a mere accusation was enough to destroy a person, no trial, held without bail or even charges being levied. Like now.

Answer 4

Joseph McCarthy was a senator in the late 1940's and early 1950's when the Cold War began and the Soviet Union under Stalinist Communism seemed to be the worst threat to U.S. security. McCarthy began to preach that the communists had infiltrated the highest levels of the U.S. government and even the military. Soon he began to accuse anyone who opposed his viewpoint of being a communist and anyone who knew someone of being a communist as being a threat to the U.S.. It was a period of great suspicion, guilt by association and guilt by accusation. Blacklisting was a by product of this era wherein people were not allowed to have certain jobs or privileges because they had been associated with something or someone that was consider to be sympathetic to communism. Several prominent Hollywood stars, authors, producers, labor leaders, professors and other groups of people were accused and found themselves unable to get work even though nothing was ever proved.