MCCARTHYISM in English Mccarthysm; Current of thought and procedures that led to the American senator Joseph Mccarthy between the years 50 to 56 in the United States, as a by-product of the cold war between that country and the Soviet Union, where communists were persecuted with unfounded accusations, denunciations and interrogations against people who were suspected of being communists, coming to investigate and accuse various sectors and people, such as Hollywood artists, in the form of blacklists and procedures that violated human rights, which were called 'witch hunts' The influential writer and playwright Arthur Miller, husband of Marilyn Monroe, wrote about it the book The crucible (The crucible) in 1952, which was brought to the theatre as The Witches of Salem, in 1953. The term is used today to accuse any government that persecutes an opposition group or of not respecting human rights and persecuting them for the sake of national security. Some synonyms, words or similar expressions may be McCarthyism, McCarthyism, McCarthyism