Flashcards
A Divided Union: Civil Rights in the USA, 1945-74
Cards in this deck (20)
- 1Give one reason why many Americans loathed communismNot democratic/ No private business or owners making profits
- 2Give two events of the Cold War 1945-50 that intensified the 'Red Scare'Stalin takeover in East Europe/ Berlin Blockade or airlift/ war in Korea
- 3The director of he FBI was strongly anti-communist. What was his name?J. Edgar Hoover
- 4Which kind of employees had to prove that they were not communists?Government employees
- 5Millions of employees were investigated? True or False?True
- 6What happened to a government employee who was accused of being a security risk?They were forced out of their job
- 7What do the letters HUAC stand for?House Un-American Activities Committee
- 8Why were the Hollywood Ten sent to jailThey refused to answer questions
- 9Who/what organisation employed Alger Hiss?US State department
- 10Alger Hiss spent 5 years in prison. What was his crime?Perjury
- 11The Russians very quickly developed their own atomic bombs. What did the Americans suspect about this?Someone was passing on secrets
- 12Julius and Ethel Rosenberg- who was he/ and what happened to them?Soviet spy, executed for treason
- 13Against President Truman's wishes, Congress (led by McCarran) made a new law stopping communists having- what? Date?No passports- 1952
- 14How did most people in the USA react to the 'Red Scare'?Intensely involved and often hysterical
- 15Was Joe McCarthy a Republican or Democrat senator?Republican
- 16What job was he given by president Eisenhower in 1952?Head of Committee to investigate communists
- 17Which heroic soldier was accused by McCarthy of being a communist?General Marshall (of Marshall plan fame?)
- 18How did the film industry help McCarthy in his 'witch-hunts'?Disney and Warner wouldn't employ suspected Communists produced scary sci-fi films (increased hysteria)
- 19Name any two anti-McCarthy actions take in the 1950sActors/ Hollywood stars/quality newspaper spoke out against him, TV programmes to discredit him and show he was lying about his 'evidence'
- 20How did McCarthy fall apart?Humiliated on tv/ ridiculed/ alcoholic (died 1957)