McCarthyism

phenomenon in the United States of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence, named after Senator Joseph McCarthy
Event red_scare Q207066
McCarthyism
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McCarthyism

Summary

McCarthyism is a Red Scare[1]. McCarthyism draws 3,825 Wikipedia views per month (red_scare category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • McCarthyism is in the country of United States[3].
  • McCarthyism's image is recorded as Welch-McCarthy-Hearings.jpg[4].
  • McCarthyism's instance of is recorded as Red Scare[5].
  • McCarthyism's instance of is recorded as prejudice[6].
  • McCarthyism's instance of is recorded as harassment[7].
  • Joseph McCarthy is named after McCarthyism[8].
  • McCarthyism's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11970903t[9].
  • McCarthyism's Commons category is recorded as McCarthyism[10].
  • McCarthyism's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 58043[11].
  • McCarthyism's start time is recorded as +1950-00-00T00:00:00Z[12].
  • McCarthyism's end time is recorded as +1954-00-00T00:00:00Z[13].
  • McCarthyism's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bzsy[14].
  • McCarthyism's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph122718[15].
  • McCarthyism's has cause is recorded as Red Scare[16].
  • McCarthyism's topic's main category is recorded as Category:McCarthyism[17].
  • McCarthyism's political ideology is recorded as anti-communism[18].
  • McCarthyism's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10639266[19].
  • McCarthyism's facet of is recorded as politics of the United States[20].
  • McCarthyism's described by source is recorded as Tarihsel Terimler Sozlugu[21].
  • McCarthyism's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/McCarthyism[22].
  • McCarthyism's BBC Things ID is recorded as 87237f9f-9488-4098-9d84-2dd28e2070f6[23].
  • McCarthyism's Quora topic ID is recorded as McCarthyism[24].
  • McCarthyism's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 20075305[25].
  • McCarthyism's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as mccarthyism[26].
  • McCarthyism's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Human rights[27].

Why It Matters

McCarthyism draws 3,825 Wikipedia views per month (red_scare category, ranking #1 of 2).[2] McCarthyism has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] McCarthyism is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  7. [9] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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