AGLOSO

 Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations aka (AGLOSO) was one of the most central and widely publicized aspects of the post–World War II Red Scare, which has become known as McCarthyism.

                                   
The Red Scare Begins 

It originated with President Truman's Executive Order 9835 of March 21, 1947, which required that all federal civil service employees be screened for "loyalty."In other words they were testing people to see if they were communist spies. "It's okay – We're hunting Communists" the title of an article of the era.The Cold War revived the anti-communist hysteria that had consumed the United States after World War I. In 1947 Congress revived the House Committee on Un-American Activities aka (HUAC), opposed by Herb Block since itsstart in the 1930s and declared by President Truman to be itself the most un-American activity

                         McCarthyism its' rise and fall

"I have here in my hand . . ."In 1954, Senator Joseph McCarthy went too far when he took on the United States Army, accusing it of promoting communists. The Senate held special hearings, known as the Army-McCarthy hearings, which were among the first to be televised nationally. In the course of testimony McCarthy submitted evidence that was identified as fraud. As both the public and politicians watched the bullying of McCarthy ,they began to break away from him. Before the year was out McCarthy, whose charges had first hit the headlines in February 1950, was censured by his colleagues for "conduct unbecoming a senator."

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