Joseph Mcarthy

A. List three things the author said that you think are important:

-Your board did a pain taking job, and named hundreds which it lists as dangerous to the security of the nation.

Failure on you part will label the democratic party of being the bed fellow if international communism

you signed an order forbidding the states departments giving to the congress any information in regard to the disloyalty or the communistic connections of anyone 

B. Why do you think this document was written?
Joseph Mcarthy believed that there were communist members amongst the state department, and he wanted to notify the president.

C. What evidence in the document helps you know why it was written? Quote from the document.
I have in my possession the names of 57 communist who are in the state department.

D. List two things the document tells you about life in the United States at the time it was written:
-Foreign policies

-communism

E. Write a question to the author that is left unanswered by the document:
-What information is present to you that made you get the assumptions of the many names of the people who you claim to be part of the communist party.

F. Date of document

February 11, 1950

G. Author:

Joseph Mcarthy