Questions
What Americans were afraid of during the Red Scare?
What is soviet correspondents and subversives in US political positions
Who
Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin
How
Establishing of HUAC and Loyalty Order
Consequences did Americans face if they were guilty (or accused) of being communist or associating with communists?
What are losing jobs, reputation, and potential jail time
What
Period of mass hysteria of a communist threat within the country, which led to exposes of communists working in government positions.
What did the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 do?
Limited immigration, specifically from Southern and Eastern Europe
The reason the Rosenbergs tried and executed?
What is passing military(radar/sonic/nuclear) secrets to the soviet union
Where
United States, HUAC
What was HUAC also known as?
The Communist Witch Hunts
Actions of Senator Joseph McCarthy to eliminate communism in America?
What is accusing people of being communists in federal government, university, film industry etc positions.
When
First wave: 1917-1920, Bolshevik Revolution
Second wave: Right after WWII
Climax: 1950-1954, McCarthy
Which other group of people besides the communist were "hunted" down by McCarthy?
Homosexuals
How Americans prepare for possible communist attacks.
What is creating bunkers, and teaching “duck and hide”
Why
First was in fear of US citizens plotting something similar to the Bolshevik Revolution. Later in fear of USSR and the threat to national security.
Practice of making accusations and assumptions about treason
McCarthyism