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McCarthy and Cohn

Roy Cohn (left) and Sen. Joseph McCarthy (right)

Timeline

  • 1949 // Soviets test atomic bomb (fission)
  • 1949 // Communist China
  • 1950 // (January) NSC-68 prepared
  • 1950 // (February ) McCarthy claims communists in State Department
  • 1950-53 // Korean War
  • 1951 // Rosenbergs convicted of espionage and sentenced to death
  • 1952 // US tests hydrogen bomb (fusion)
  • 1954 // US Army – McCarthy hearings & then censure vote
  • 1956 // Dickinson suspends professor suspected of Communist ties
  • 1957 //  McCarthy dies at age 48
  • 1958 // AAUP censures Dickinson

Dickinson College Confronts McCarthyism

LaVallee

Miniclier becomes prominent journalist

Memory & Meaning

Historian Ellen Schrecker offers an approach to teaching McCarthyism