"in my opinion, the state department, which is one of the most important government departments, is thoroughly infested with communists." sen. joseph mccarthy this statement is most significant in the context of a) world war i. b) world war ii. c) the cold war. d) the communist revolution.

The statement given is most significant in the context of the cold war .

Option - C

Explanation:

Joseph R. McCarthy was a republican senator of Wisconsin. He was called Red Scare for most of the American. He was once involved in trying to prove that the communists loyalist in the US government.

He worked for around five years to expose them to the suspicious atmosphere of cold war. Because of him Americans of the view that the government was gain access to communists and soviet spies. McCarthy’s allegations were so frightening that people are dared to speak out against him. On the day second December 1954 senate warned Joseph McCarthy which earned him censure.  

a) hostility to or prejudice against jews.

b) the holocaust, also referred to as the shoah, was a genocide during world war ii in which nazi germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million european jews             , around two-thirds of the jewish population of europe, between 1941 and 1945.