McCarthyism+Timeline

=**Communism/ McCarthyism Timeline**=


 * 1848:** Karl Marx publishes Communist manifesto, launching the Commnist movement.
 * 1895:** J. Edgar Hoover is born in Washington DC.
 * 1908:** Joseph McCarthy is born on a farm near Appleton, Wisconsin.
 * 1917**: Russian Monarchy ends, after a bloody revolution. Communism is established as the official economic policy of a country for the first time. Vladimir Lenin is the first head of state.
 * 1922:** The USSR forms, becoming one of the most powerful nations in the world. The stage is set for a showdown between the United States and the USSR.
 * 1924:** Stalin becomes the leader of the USSR. People in the United States are shocked at his brutality, and the first Red Scare begins. J. Edgar Hoover becomes director of the FBI.
 * 1935:** McCarthy gets law degree at Marquette University.
 * 1936:** McCarthy tries unsuccesfully to become a District Attorney, but then runs again and wins.
 * 1942:** U.S.S.R. in World War II. McCarthy commisions into US marine corps. He has a boring job as a Pacific intelligence officer, but he embellishes it to make him seem like a war hero.
 * 1945:** World War II ends.
 * 1946:** The Cold War begins. McCarthy elected to US senate. The first two years he doesn't do anything exciting.
 * 1948:** McCarthy testifies that Alger Hiss is a Communist spy, starting his anti-communnist attacks.
 * 1949:** Alger Hiss goes to jail for perjury.
 * 1950-54:** McCarthy gains public attention with his Communist accusations.
 * 1953:** Stalin dies.
 * 1954:** Hiss is released from jail.
 * 1957:** McCarthy dies at the age of 48.
 * 1961:** Building of the Berlin Wall.
 * 1972:** J. Edgar Hoover dies.
 * 1985:** Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union.
 * 1987:** Treaty signed to end medium-range nuclear forces.
 * 1989:** The Cold War comes to an end. Berlin Wall falls.
 * 1991:** Breakup of Soviet Union begins.
 * 1996:** Alger Hiss dies at the age of 92.