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State what is the red scare
what is inspired by Communism's emergence as a recognized political force? Thanks in part to its success in organizing labor unions and its early opposition to fascism, the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) increased its membership through the 1930s, reaching a peak of about 75,000 members in 1940–41.
state what is the second red scare
what is throughout the 1940s and 1950s America was overwhelmed with concerns about the threat of communism growing in eastern Europe and china
State why no one step to Mccarthy
what is No one dared tangle with McCarthy for fear of being labeled disloyal
state who is J. Robert Oppenheimer
what is scientific director of the Manhattan Project that built the first atomic bomb, then working as a consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission, was stripped of his security clearance after a four-week hearing. Oppenheimer had received a top-secret clearance in 1947 but was denied clearance in the harsher climate of 1954
State what is another thing that scared us that the communist was doing
what is the Communist army gaining control of mainland China despite heavy American financial support of the opposing Kuomintang.
State what is a cold war
what is began almost immediately, as the Soviet Union installed repressive Communist puppet régimes across Central and Eastern Europe, while the United States backed right-wing forces in Greece and China.
state who is Joseph McCarthy
what is
A Marine Corps veteran of World War II, McCarthy was elected to the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin in 1946
state Why didn’t Eisenhower do more to confront McCarthy
what is refused to engage directly with McCarthy. By avoiding the Red-hunting senator
state who is William F. Buckley, Jr.,
what is was a conservative American author and commentator. In 1954, Buckley co-wrote a book McCarthy and His Enemies with his brother-in-law, L. Brent Bozell Jr., strongly defending Senator Joseph McCarthy as a patriotic crusader against communism
state what war in 1950 tried to fight forces against communism
what is the Korean war
state what is the crucible
what is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. The play is an allegory for McCarthyism
state 1950 Joseph McCarthy speech
what is does He leap to national fame on 9 February 1950 with a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, where he waved a piece of paper and claimed "I have in my hand" a list of known communist loyalists working in the State Department.
state the hidden hand approach to government
what is was the product of serendipity and surprise
state who is one of the most influential opponents of McCarthyism
what is Edward R. Murrow
state how did Mccarthy flop?
what is The Army and McCarthy traded charges and counter-charges for 36 days before a nationwide television audience. While the official outcome of the hearings was inconclusive, this exposure of McCarthy to the American public resulted in a sharp decline in his popularity
state The Hollywood Blacklist
what is came into being in 1947 when the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) began to summon certain Hollywood entertainment professionals on the suspicion that their work was communist-inspired
state what is House Un-American Activities Committee
what is While the House Un American Activities Committee had been formed in 1938 as an anti-Communist organ, McCarthy’s accusations heightened the political tensions of the times
state who die in the electric chair as punishment for their theft of atomic secrets
what is Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
state who was a key figure at the end of the blacklisting of McCarthyism
what is John Henry Faulk
state how McCarthy’s fall from popularity
what is In less than a year, McCarthy’s position as a prominent force in anti-communism was essentially ended. On December 2, 1954, the Senate voted to censure Senator McCarthy by a vote of 67 to 22, making him one of the few senators ever to be disciplined in this fashion.
state President Harry Truman's Executive Order 9835
what is initiated a program of loyalty reviews for federal employees in 1947.
state what are Banned Books
what is has McCarthy examined authors for allegations of Communist influence? Yielding to the pressure, the State Department ordered its overseas librarians to remove these books from their shelves. Some libraries actually burned the newly forbidden books.
state how Eisenhower fought fight
what is The first move the White House made was to try to discredit the men around McCarthy, notably the lawyer Roy Cohn
What is the Soviet Union was testing nuclear bombs
state what happened 3 years after McCarthy's downfall.
what is
McCarthy died on May 2, 1957, at the age of 48. The official cause of death was acute hepatitis; it is widely accepted that this was exacerbated by
alcoholism