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McCarthyism, an Epic card
McCarthyism is a political practice defined by the accusation and investigation of left-wing individuals of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s, heavily associated with the McCarthy era.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 88
- DEF
- 85
- Power
- 173
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 540,000
Power 173 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
McCarthyism quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the McCarthyism card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
After the mid-____s, U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy, who had spearheaded the campaign, gradually lost his public popularity after several of his accusations were found to be false.
Answer
1950s. After the mid-1950s, U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy, who had spearheaded the campaign, gradually lost his public popularity after several of his accusations were found to be false. From the McCarthyism article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
McCarthyism. McCarthyism 88 · Toyotomi Hideyoshi 83 · Anwar Sadat 80 · Saul 76 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- After the mid-1950s, U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy, who had spearheaded the campaign, gradually lost his public popularity after several of his accusations were found to be false.
- The U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren made a series of rulings on civil and political rights that overturned several key laws and legislative directives, and helped bring an end to the Second Red Scare.
- Historians have suggested since the 1980s that as McCarthy's involvement was less central than that of others, a different and more accurate term should be used instead that more accurately conveys the breadth of the phenomenon, and that the term McCarthyism is, in the modern day, outdated.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The McCarthyism article was read about 540,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 88 and blocks with 85: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get McCarthyism
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, McCarthyism (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Anticommunist_Literature_1950s.tiff : Myron Coureval Fagan derivative work: Comte0 ( talk , Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
