24 Facts
The CPUSA.
What is the Communist Party of the United States?
United States ally during WWII.
What is the Soviet Union?
What you should be fearful of in your life.
What is Communist influence?
The amount of documents Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko had on the Soviet Union espionage activities.
What is 109?
Seen as a "patriotic crusader against Communism" by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
They installed repressive Communist puppet regimes across central and eastern Europe.
What is the Soviet Union?
The year the Soviet Union tested an atomic bomb.
What is 1949?
The paranoia about the internal Communist threat.
What is the Red Scare?
The primary targets for the Communist hunt.
What are government employees, the entertainment industry, educators?
One of the most influential opponents of McCarthy.
Who is Edward R. Murrow?
A play that is an allegory for McCarthyism.
What is The Crucible?
The war that began in 1950.
What is the Korean War?
The peak of the Red Scare.
What is 1950-1954?
A program of loyalty reviews for federal employees.
What is President Truman's Executive Order 9835?
The place where most of McCarthy's undoing came from.
What is the Supreme Court?
The couple who was arrested in 1950 on charges of stealing atomic bomb secrets for the Soviets and was executed in 1953.
Who is Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
A Marine Corps veteran of World War II, who was elected to the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin in 1946.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
The reason no one interfered with McCarthy.
The department that kept a list of organizations that seemed subversive.
What is the Department of Justice?
Named a suspected Communist, also married to Marilyn Monroe.
Who is Arthur Miller?
One of the nation's most fervent anti-communists.
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
The HUAC.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
They had a timid approach to McCarthyism.
President Eisenhower
The deal that was equated with Communism.
What is the New Deal?
The year McCarthy was voted to be censured.
What is 1954?