McCarthyism
Who was the man who started the entirety of McCarthyism and accused many innocent people of communism?
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
What was the list of famous people who were suspected of communism and refused to testify before HUAC?
What was the Hollywood Blacklist?
what was an attempt to arrest foreign anarchists, communists, and radical leftists
What was the primary reason for Palmer Raids
Why was HUAC controversial?
what was because HUAC often pressured witnesses to surrender names and other information that could lead to the apprehension of Communists and Communist sympathizers. Committee members branded witnesses as "red" if they refused to comply or hesitated in answering committee questions.
What was the Cold War?
The Cold War was a period of political and ideological tension between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies from the late 1940s to the early 1990s
What was the spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence in America during the 1950s?
What was McCarthyism?
Who were the ten film industry members who refused to testify to an anti-communist committee?
Who were the Hollywood Ten?
what was 250
How many people were deported by Palmers Agents
Why was HUAC created ?
what was to investigate alleged disloyalties and rebel activities
What were the main causes of the Cold War?
Soviet Union’s control of Eastern Europe, the Truman Doctrine, and the Marshall Plan, heightened tensions as each side sought to expand its influence.
What was communism?
What did McCarthy accuse people of?
How long did the Hollywood Blacklist last?
What was about 20 years?
what were a series of nationwide raids targeting suspected socialists, anarchists, and communists,
What happened in the Palmer Raids
How did HUAC intensify Cold War tensions
what were investigations and public hearings that targeted suspected Communists, leading to widespread fear, the suppression of dissent, and the marginalization of social justice movements.
What was the significance of the Berlin Wall during the Cold War?
The Berlin Wall, built in 1961, symbolized the division between East and West during the Cold War.
How did McCarthyism affect freedom of speech in America?
What was the increase of censorship?
How did people try to fight back against the list?
What was refusal to testify, protesting, support, and fake names?
what was the First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and freedom of press
What amendments were violated
Was the HUAC justified
what was, While critics complained that HUAC's investigations trampled on citizens' rights, supporters believed the committee's actions were justified, given threats to national security at the time.
What role did nuclear weapons play in the Cold War?
Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
What was the punishment of being suspected of communism?
What was being blacklisted?
How did the Hollywood Blacklist end?
What was backlash, changing in public opinion, and politics?
What were the main effects of the palmer raids
what was the clearance of radicalism in the labor community
What happened to the HUAC?
What was When the House abolished the committee in 1975, its functions were transferred to the House Judiciary Committee. Chairman Martin Dies of the House Un-American Activities Committee proofreads his October 26, 1938 letter replying to President Roosevelt's attack on the committee
How did the Cold War end?
The Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, following years of internal economic struggles, the spread of democratic movements in Eastern Europe, and reforms initiated by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, such as perestroika and glasnost