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Flashcards by Izzy Noone, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Izzy Noone
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Give one reason why many Americans loathed communism | Not democratic/ No private business or owners making profits |
| Give 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 |
| The director of he FBI was strongly anti-communist. What was his name? | J. Edgar Hoover |
| Which kind of employees had to prove that they were not communists? | Government employees |
| Millions of employees were investigated? True or False? | True |
| What happened to a government employee who was accused of being a security risk? | They were forced out of their job |
| What do the letters HUAC stand for? | House Un-American Activities Committee |
| Why were the Hollywood Ten sent to jail | They refused to answer questions |
| Who/what organisation employed Alger Hiss? | US State department |
| Alger Hiss spent 5 years in prison. What was his crime? | Perjury |
| The Russians very quickly developed their own atomic bombs. What did the Americans suspect about this? | Someone was passing on secrets |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg- who was he/ and what happened to them? | Soviet spy, executed for treason |
| Against President Truman's wishes, Congress (led by McCarran) made a new law stopping communists having- what? Date? | No passports- 1952 |
| How did most people in the USA react to the 'Red Scare'? | Intensely involved and often hysterical |
| Was Joe McCarthy a Republican or Democrat senator? | Republican |
| What job was he given by president Eisenhower in 1952? | Head of Committee to investigate communists |
| Which heroic soldier was accused by McCarthy of being a communist? | General Marshall (of Marshall plan fame?) |
| How 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) |
| Name any two anti-McCarthy actions take in the 1950s | Actors/ Hollywood stars/quality newspaper spoke out against him, TV programmes to discredit him and show he was lying about his 'evidence' |
| How did McCarthy fall apart? | Humiliated on tv/ ridiculed/ alcoholic (died 1957) |
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