The First Red Scare: Fear and Fallout
This Italian immigrant duo was controversially convicted of robbery and murder in 1921.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
What does HUAC stand for?
What is House Un-American Committees?
A government which holds one party elections and controls all economic decisions.
What is communism?
This term refers to the widespread fear of communist influence in the U.S. during the late 1940s and 1950s, leading to government investigations and blacklists.
What is the Second Red Scare?
A. Mitchell Palmer, the U.S. Attorney General, ordered these famous raids to arrest people he thought were communists or anarchists.
What are the Palmer Raids?
They investigated claims of communism in the government during the Cold War.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
Countries that were the main contributors to communism during the cold war.
What is Russia and china?
This U.S. senator from Wisconsin became infamous for his aggressive accusations of communist infiltration in the government, despite often lacking evidence.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This nation was officially established in 1922, following the Bolshevik Revolution and the Russian Civil War.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
These lists included names of professors, artists, and others who were suspected of communist ties, making it difficult for them to find employment.
What are blacklists?
This U.S. policy aimed to contain communism by providing economic and military aid, while this plan supplied $13 billion to rebuild Europe and strengthen democratic governments.
What are the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan?
This 1950s congressional committee investigated suspected communists, particularly in Hollywood, leading to the blacklisting of many actors and writers.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
While Lenin led the Bolshevik Revolution, this leader later took power in the Soviet Union and began purging his political enemies.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This famous group of ten Hollywood screenwriters and directors refused to testify before the HUAC, leading to their blacklisting and imprisonment.
What are the Hollywood Ten?
This U.S. foreign policy, driven by the fear of communism's expansion, led to military interventions in Korea and Vietnam, as well as financial and strategic support to countries resisting Soviet influence.
What is the policy of containment?
This term describes the act of making baseless accusations of disloyalty or subversion without proper evidence, a tactic associated with Senator McCarthy.
What is McCarthyism?
This event in 1920, which killed nearly 40 people and injured hundreds outside a major financial hub, was linked to anarchists and fueled fears of communist terrorism in the U.S. during the First Red Scare.
What is the Wall Street bombing?
This U.S. government official was accused of espionage and convicted of perjury after denying allegations of passing documents to the Soviet Union.
Who is Alger Hiss?
How did the spread of communism shape the Korean War and the Vietnam War?
What is the division of Korea along the 38th parallel, allowing North Korea to invade South Korea in an attempt to unify the peninsula under communism?
This couple was controversially convicted of espionage and executed in 1953 for allegedly passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?