24 Facts
Initiated the second Red Scare in the U.S
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Author of the Crucible
Who is Arthur Miller?
Paranoia about the internal Communist threat
What is The Red Scare?
A dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693
What is The Crucible?
CBS newscaster and analyst
Who is Edward R. Murrow?
McCarthy's political view
What is a Republican?
Allied with the U.S during WWII
What is the Soviet Union?
A real spy who penetrated into the State Department
Who is Alger Hiss?
Started keeping a list of organizations that it deemed subversive beginning in 1942
What is The Department of Justice?
Much of the undoing of McCarthyism came at the hands of...
What is The Supreme Court?
A conservative American author and commentator
Who is William F. Buckley, Jr?
Mao Zedong's Communist army gained control of mainland
What is China?
Argued that Eisenhower’s handling of McCarthy provides evidence of a “hidden hand” approach to government
Who is Fred Greenstein?
One of the nation's most fervent anti-communists
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
Turned his investigatory resources on the US Army and on members of the administration itself
Who is Joe McCarthy?
Initiated a program of loyalty reviews for federal employees in 1947
What is President Harry Truman's Executive Order 9835?
Among the first film industry witnesses subpoenaed by the Committee
What is Hollywood Ten?
Brought the threat of Communism to life
What is comic books and pulp fiction magazines?
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
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
Cause of McCarthy's death
What is liver faliure?
An American spy for the Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945
Who is Elizabeth Terrill Bentley?
Date of McCarthy's downfall
What is December 2, 1954?
Ike had helped bring it to a bitter end
What is McCarthyism?
Confessed to committing espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union while working on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory during the War
Who is Klaus Fuchs?
Host of an afternoon comedy radio show, a leftist active in his union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and a key figure in the end of the blacklisting of McCarthyism
Who is John Henry Faulk?