24 Facts
War that was going on during the Age of McCarthyism?
What is the The Cold War
Period throughout the 1940's and 50's where Americans where concerned with the threat of Communism in eastern Europe and China.
What is The Second Red Scare.
What was McCarthy telling the American people to be afraid of?
What is Communism
Who was running against McCarthy?
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who won the 26th presidential election?
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower
Play made in 1952 play written by Arthur Miller?
What is The Crucible
Senitor of wisconsin in 1946?
Who is Joe McCarthy
What state did McCarthy represent in the US Senate?
What is Wisconsin
1947 when the House Committee on Un-American Activities began to summon certain Hollywood entertainment professionals on the suspicion that their work was communist-inspired?
what was the hollywood blacklist
What year was McCarthy elected into the US senate?
what is 1958
The scientific director of the Manhattan project?
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer
Suspect of Communism married to Marylin Monroe?
Who was Arthur Miller
Of what political party was McCarthy associated with?
What is the Republican Party
anti-communist organization that led the hunt for American communists and communist sympathizers?
what is The House Un-American Activities Committee
A cipher clerk for the soviet embassy to canada in ottawa?
Who is Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko
The First Red Scare took place from?
What is 1917-1920
The year McCarthy died?
What is 1957
what was the Manhatten Project geared towards doing?
a program of loyalty reviews for federal employees in 1947?
President Harry Truman's Executive Order 9835
an American spy for the Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945?
who is Elizabeth Terrill Bentley
Much of the undoing of McCarthyism came from?
What is the Supreme Court
What did joe McCarthy serve as in WWII?
What is an Army Pilot
How did McCarthy die?
What is Alcohol Abuse
FBI director was fanatically involved in the pursuit of subversive Communists in the United States?
who was J. Edgar Hoover
what are some examples of primary targets?
what are government employees, those in the entertainment industry, educators and union activists