"I do not want and the United States does not want to have forever spent its hard-earned wealth and the lives of its young men in the defense of nations whose own conduct begs the question of whether they themselves wish to be defended. We must dare to be different. We must dare to demand of ourselves and others a peace which would have a foundation other than the absence of war." — Margaret Chase Smith, 1950
McCarthyism's most enduring legacy was
- A
Permanent banning of the Communist Party
- B
Restoration of the Sedition Act
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A bipartisan caution about anti-communist excess
- D
Establishment of HUAC after 1954
Explanation
McCarthy's Senate censure (1954) and post-mortem reassessments shaped lasting wariness of governmental loyalty crusades.