24 Facts
1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller.
What is The Crucible?
Group gained control of mainland China in 1949.
what is Mao Zedong's Communist army?
Man who started McCarthyism
who is Joseph McCarthy
the country the red scare gained fear from.
what is The Soviet Union
was an American spy for the Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945. In 1945, she defected from the Communist Party and Soviet intelligence and became an informer for the U.S.
who is Elizabeth Terrill Bentley
supporting groups of McCarthyism.
What are American Legion and American Public Relations Forum?
With the first film industry witnesses, testimony by the Committee were ten who decided not to cooperate.
Who are The Hollywood Ten?
who is dwight d. eisenhower
exposed Joseph Stalin's efforts to steal nuclear secrets and the technique of planting sleeper agents.
who is Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko
committed 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
initiated a program of loyalty review for federal employees in 1947.
who is President Harry Truman's Executive Order 9835?
In the 1940s and 1950s threats of communism grew in Eastern Europe and China.
What is The Second Red Scare?
the start of the second red scare.
a play that is an allegory to McCarthyism
what is The Crucible
list of media workers ineligible for employment because of alleged communist or subversive ties
what is the Hollywood blacklist
Name of co-writer of McCarthy and his enemies with brother-in-law L. Brent Bozell Jr.
Who is William F. Buckley, Jr?
There was no large-scale fighting directly between the two superpowers.
What is a cold war?
state of which McCarthy was a senator of
what is Wisconsin
an ally to US during WWll and had no care about communism.
what is The Soviet Union
FBI director, one of the nation's most fervent anti-communists
who is J. Edgar Hoover
Host of an afternoon comedy radio show and a key figure at the end of the blacklisting of McCarthyism.
who is John Henry Faulk?
A list of people or organizations that have been regarred as unacceptable or untrustworthy.
what is a blacklist?
leader of the investigation on the red scare and Joseph McCarthy
who is Roy Cohn
A couple who was arrested in 1950 on charges of stealing atomic bomb secrets for the Soviets and were executed in 1953
who is Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
a group to investigate alleged disloyalty and rebel activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and organizations
what is HUAC