As a result of joseph mccarthy’s accusations and his committee hearings,
a. mccarthy was accused of falsifying documents and impeached.
b. thousands were accused of being communist sympathizers.
c. the anticommunist hysteria that gripped the nation quickly quieted down.
d. relations between the united states and the soviet union improved.

The correct answer is option B.

Explanation:

As a result of Joseph McCarthy’s accusations and his committee hearings, thousands were accused of being communist sympathizers.

The correct answer is B. As a result of Joseph McCarthy's accusations and his committee hearings, thousands were accused of being communist symphatizers.

Explanation:

McCarthyism is a term used in reference to accusations of disloyalty, subversion or treason, without due respect to a fair legal process where the rights of the accused are respected.

It originated in an episode in the history of the United States that took place between 1950 and 1956 during which Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957) unleashed an extended process of statements, unfounded accusations, denunciations, interrogations, irregular processes and blacklists against people suspected of being communists. The sectors that opposed the irregular and indiscriminate methods of McCarthy denounced the process as a "witch hunt".

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d.summerains, the last one