When was mccarthy hearings

McCarthy insulted Zwicker's intelligence and commented that he was not fit to wear his uniform. Subsequently, the Army released a report charging that McCarthy and his aide, Roy Cohn, had pressured the Army to give favored treatment to G. David Schine, a former McCarthy aide who had been drafted. McCarthy counter-charged that the Army was using Schine as a hostage to exert pressure on McCarthy not to expose communists within its ranks.

McCarthy relinquished his chairmanship position to Republican Karl Mundt from South Dakota so that the hearings could commence. The Cultural Revolution was launched in China in by Communist leader Mao Zedong in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government.

Believing that current Communist leaders were taking the party, and China itself, in the wrong direction, Mao called on the Along with Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, Mao is considered one of the most significant communist figures of the His aggressive methods targeting However, the relationship between the two nations was a tense one.

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