The term specifically describes activities associated with the period in the LOCATION@1 known as the Second MISC@1 , lasting roughly from the late NUMBER@1 to the late NUMBER@2 and characterized by heightened fears of communist influence on MISC@2 institutions and espionage by MISC@3 agents .

McCarthyism is the term describing a period of intense MISC@4 suspicion in the LOCATION@1 that lasted roughly from the late NUMBER@1 to the mid to late NUMBER@2 .
