Question

How did Senator Joseph McCarthy rise to national status and recognition?

O He was appointed to the Supreme Court and heard cases brought by
Communists
He won his Senate seat in Wisconsin after claiming to be a Communist
He claimed to have a list of hundreds of known spies within the government.
He helped pass the McCarran Act, which restricted the civil rights of
Communists.

Answer 1

After three largely undistinguished years in the Senate, McCarthy rose suddenly to national fame in February 1950, when he asserted in a speech that he had a list of "members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who were employed in the State Department.

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