McCarthyism is a tactic in which a person can accuse another person of disloyalty or

treason without any evidence to back that person up. McCarthyism most likely originated during the
Second Red Scare, which It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair
investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism." The term has its
origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from
1950 to 1956 and characterized by heightened political repressionagainst communists, as well as
afear campaign spreading paranoia of their influence on American institutions
and espionage bySoviet agents. Originally coined to criticize the anti-communist pursuits of U.S.
Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, "McCarthyism" soon took on a broader meaning, describing
the excesses of similar efforts.
The Cold War was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in
theWestern Bloc (theUnited States withNATO and others) and powers in theEastern Bloc (theSoviet
Union and its allies inWarsaw Pact). Historians have not fully agreed on the dates, but 19471991 is
common. It was "cold" because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides,
although there were major regional wars in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan. The Cold War split the
temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, leaving the USSR and the US as
two superpowers with profound economic and political differences over capitalism and democracy.
Included the berlin wall, iron curtain, Korean war, Vietnam war.
The Emergency Quota Act, also known as the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921,
the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, the Per Centum Law, and the Johnson Quota Act (ch.
8, 42 Stat. 5 of May 19, 1921) restricted immigration into the United States. Although intended as
temporary legislation, the Act "proved in the long run the most important turning-point in American
immigration policy"
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because it added two new features to American immigration law: numerical
limits on immigration from Europe and the use of a quota system for establishing those limits.
The Immigration Act of 1924, or JohnsonReed Act, including the National Origins Act,
and Asian Exclusion Act (Pub.L. 68139, 43 Stat. 153, enacted May 26, 1924), was a United
States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any
country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United
States in 1890, down from the 3% cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, according to
the Census of 1890. It superseded the 1921 Emergency Quota Act. The law was aimed at further
restricting immigration of Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans, andJews, in addition to
prohibiting the immigration of Arabs, East Asians, and Indians.