A quote from the Cold War Museum is “The effects of McCarthy era symbolized the pure terror of communism during the time due to the Cold War. Although it came to an end in a few short years” (The Cold War Museum). Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. Senator believed that communists was going to take over. So he decide to do an investigation for two years to catch people that were guilty of communism. He was separate from the HUAC. A quote to prove this is, “ People that were on his list were in fact not all communists; most people on the list were alcoholics. McCarthy wanted to investigate it. He continued to investigate for over two years, questioning government departments” (The Cold War Museum). During his investigation a new idea came around which was called McCarthyism. McCarthyism is the campaign he ran go get communism out of the United States during the Cold War. Many people that were on the list were blacklisted or lost their jobs if they were on his list of convicts. McCarthy was not on the Communist Party at the time of this and was never going to be on it in the first