24 Facts
The Crucible & McCarthyism
McCarthyism and the Red Scare
Potpourri
Miscellaneous
100

A cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.

Who was Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko?

100

The Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller.

What is the Crucible? 

100

America was overwhelmed with the concern about communism Growing in Eastern Europe and China. 

What happened in the 1940s and 1950s?  

100

He was arrested in 1950 on charges of stealing atomic bomb secrets for the Soviets and was executed in 1953.

Who is Ethel Rosenberg? 

100

February 9th, 1950

When was Joseph McCarthy's speech? 

200

A scientific director of the Manhattan Project that built the first atomic bomb.

Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?

200

It is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials

What is the Crucible about? 

200

In Eastern Europe and China. 

Where was the threat of communism growing? 

200

He was an FBI director and was one of the nation's most fervent anti-communists. 

Who is J. Edgar Hoover? 

200

1938

When was the House Un-American Activities  Committee (HUAC) formed? 

300

1947 - 1991

When was the Cold war? 

300

 It took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

Where did the crucible take place?

300

Republican U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin.

Who initiated the second red scare? 

300

4 groups.

How many groups supported McCarthyism? 

300

He was arrested in 1950 on charges of stealing atomic bomb secrets for the Soviets and was executed in 1953.

Who was Julius Rosenberg?

400

Republican U.S. Senator of Wisconsin in 1950.

Who is Joseph McCarthy? 

400

McCarthyism.

What was the allegory? 

400

1917-1920

When was the first red scare? 

400

He was a conservative American author and commentator.

Who is William F. Buckley, Jr?

400

Among the first film industry witnesses  subpoenaed by the Committee were ten  who decided not to cooperate. 

What was the Hollywood 10? 

500

He was a high-level State Department official and was convicted of perjury, he was found guilty of espionage.

Who is Alger Hiss? 

500

Arthur Miller.

Who wrote the Crucible? 

500

About 75,000 members in 1940 - 1941. 

How many members were in the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA)?

500

John Henry Faulk

Who was the key to the end of Blacklisting to McCarthyism? 

500

Arthur Miller was her husband. 

Who was married to Marylin Monroe?