What Specific Event Discredited Joseph McCarthy and Led to His

question 27

Multiple Choice

What specific event discredited Joseph McCarthy and led to his public downfall?

• A) the Army-McCarthy televised hearings
• B) the trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
• C) the blacklisting of the "Hollywood Ten"
• D) his accusation of President Eisenhower's having connections to the Communist Party

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Large biomolecules consisting of one or more long chains of amino acid residues, crucial for structural, enzymatic, and regulatory functions in living organisms.

Chromatid

One of the two identical halves of a duplicated chromosome, joined together at their centromeres before cell division.

Proteins

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