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==Pretext==
==Pretext==
[[Image:Ft296nb15t 00003.jpg|right|300px|thumb|American communists and [[New Deal]]ers [[Philip Jaffe]], [[Owen Lattimore]], Agnes Jaffe, and [[Thomas Bisson]] with [[PLA]] founder Zhu De (also Chu Teh, center), in Yan'an, China, June 1937.<ref>Jaffe, Bisson, and Lattimore were all founding board members of the communist controlled ''[[Amerasia]]'' magazine.</ref>]]
[[Senator Joseph McCarthy]] led a prominent public campaign to investigate [[Communist Party of the United States|Communist Party]] members working in sensitive US government jobs who were in violation of the [[Hatch Act]] prohibiting federal employment of workers with membership in "any political organization which advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of government." By 1950, it was widely known that the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]] had obtained atomic weapons know-how with the assistance of American citizens, many of them government employees. The United States had spent $4 billion to develop the technology, roughly equivalent to $80 billion today. The international situation was extremely tense at the time, and public knowledge that America's [[Cold War]] enemy obtained [[nuclear weapons]] capability with the help of federal government employees, along with the perception that the [[Truman administration]] was unconcerned about it, was very worrisome to many.
[[Senator Joseph McCarthy]] led a prominent public campaign to investigate [[Communist Party of the United States|Communist Party]] members working in sensitive US government jobs who were in violation of the [[Hatch Act]] prohibiting federal employment of workers with membership in "any political organization which advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of government." By 1950, it was widely known that the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]] had obtained atomic weapons know-how with the assistance of American citizens, many of them government employees. The United States had spent $4 billion to develop the technology, roughly equivalent to $80 billion today. The international situation was extremely tense at the time, and public knowledge that America's [[Cold War]] enemy obtained [[nuclear weapons]] capability with the help of federal government employees, along with the perception that the [[Truman administration]] was unconcerned about it, was very worrisome to many.
McCarthy's efforts to remove security risks from government employment infuriated the American [[Left]], and they often use the term to mean aggressive questioning of someone's background or personal beliefs, or making accusations of disloyalty. It is meant as a derogatory term, and sometimes used to refer to [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] (HUAC) or the Hollywood Blacklist, even though those weren't really part of McCarthy's campaign.<ref>[http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/bates/05252007.htm Joe McCarthy: Gone But Certainly Not Forgotten], Michael M. Bates, ''New Media Journal'', May 25, 2007.</ref>
McCarthy's efforts to remove security risks from government employment infuriated the American [[Left]], and they often use the term to mean aggressive questioning of someone's background or personal beliefs, or making accusations of disloyalty. It is meant as a derogatory term, and sometimes used to refer to [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] (HUAC) or the Hollywood Blacklist, even though those weren't really part of McCarthy's campaign.<ref>[http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/bates/05252007.htm Joe McCarthy: Gone But Certainly Not Forgotten], Michael M. Bates, ''New Media Journal'', May 25, 2007.</ref>
==Western betrayal==
==Western betrayal==