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100

What anti-communist group re-emerged in the US especially after the red scare?

Conservatives

100

Who were the two main communist countries that contributed to the red scare in the US?

USSR and China

100

What revolution in Russia mainly instigated the fear of immigrants overthrowing the US government.

The Bolshevik Revolution

100

What list contained the names of many directors, actors, screenwriters, and other members of the American entertainment industry who were suspected to be associated with or have sympathy for the American Communist Party.

The Hollywood Blacklist

100

This committee was originally established in 1939 to scout out Nazis an was reactivated in the House of representatives after World War II to seek out Communists?

House Un-American Activities Committee?

200

The death of what Russian leader changed the relationship of the US and Russia during the cold war?

Stalin

200

What Soviet leader supported North Korea to cross the 38th parallel and invade South Korea?

Joseph Stalin

200

What US Attorney General ordered the "Palmer Raids", targeting leftist radicals and anarchists during the first red scare?

Alexander Mitchell Palmer

200

Who led the US communist party from 1930-1945 and gained the party 100,000 followers?

Earl Browder

200

This official in the State Departement was convicted in 1950 under the suspicion of being a Communist.

Alger Hiss

300

What plan in the 1940s aided countries economically to try to stop the spread of communism?

The Marshall Plan


300

What major crisis near the south coast of the US caused a huge fear of communist takeover and war?

The cuban missle crisis

300

What president issued the executive order 98355, which mandated all federal employees be analyzed to determine whether they were sufficiently loyal to the government?

Harry S Truman

300

Who was the communist couple that was tried and executed for espionage in 1953 with charges related to the sharing of information on the production of the atomic bomb with the Soviet Union.

The Rosenburgs

300

The Rosenburgs were the first people to this.

To be executed for espionage during peacetime

400

What is the US modern day department of defense expenditures?

2.01 Trillion, more than the next 10 countries expenditures put together. 

400

The overthrowing of this Russian leader helped pro-communist leaders to get into Russian government.

Czar Nicholas II

400

What instigated the US getting involved in the Korean War?

The invasion of South Korea made Truman genuinely fearful that the Soviet Union and China intended to expand the sphere of communism throughout Asia

400

This person accused more than 200 people in the Dept. Of State of being "known communists".

Joseph McCarthy

400

This act, implemented before the U.S. entered the war, prosecuted people who destroyed the government of the U.S. under any conditions.

The Smith Act

500

What is the treay signed in 1968 to try and limit the use and production of Nuceal weapons?

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty(NPT)

500

What was the October Revolution?


The October Revolution marks the inception of the first communist government in Russia, and thus the first large-scale and constitutionally ordained socialist state in world history. After this, the Russian Republic became the Russian SFSR, which later became part of the Soviet Union.



500

What communist leader led china to become a global power in the early-mid 1900s?

Mao Zedong

500

Which US Chief justice made several rulings on civil and political rights that overturned several key laws that helped stop the second red scare?

Chief Justice Earl Warren

500

This Supreme Court case in 1951 upheld the constitutionality of the Smith Act of 1940

Dennis et al. v. U.S.

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