24 Facts
This war began as the Soviet Union installed repressive Communist puppet régimes across Central and Eastern Europe
What is Cold War?
This person was a Marine Corps veteran of World War II and was elected to the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin in 1946.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
American leaders repeatedly told the public that they should be fearful of subversive Communist influence in their lives
What is the Red Scare?
He was 11 days shy of 90 when he announced his retirement from the Supreme Court in 2010
Who is John Paul Stevens?
A movie series that involves Lightsabers
What is Starwars?
This person was an American spy for the Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945.
Who is Elizabeth Terrill Bentley?
an anti-Communist organ, McCarthy’s accusations heightened the political tensions of the times.
What is House Un-American Activities Committee?
These people had stolen classified secrets from the wartime Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb.
Who are Communist Agents?
From the Latin, for tail, it's what the Brits stand in to get in to see a movie
What is a queue?
This item is universally used to write and draw
What is a Pencil?
This came into being in 1947 when the House Committee on Un-American Activities began to summon certain Hollywood entertainment professionals on the suspicion that their work was communist-inspired
What is The Hollywood Blacklist?
Among the first film industry witnesses subpoenaed by the Committee were ten who decided not to cooperate.
What is The Hollywood Ten?
These people were condemned to die in the electric chair as punishment for their theft of atomic secrets
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
These sheet retailers try to impress you with this number 300 or 600 or even 1500
What is a Thread Count
What is Soccer?
This person was a high-level State Department official and was convicted of perjury. Hiss was found guilty of espionage.
Who is Alger Hiss?
a suspected communist by another suspect at the hearings and married to Marilyn Monroe
Who is Arthur Miller?
This person was leading the investigation for Eisenhower who had no choice but to fight back
Who is lawyer Roy Cohn?
A rowing team or all of the personnel serving aboard a ship
What is a Crew?
This Planet is the smallest in our solar system
What is Mercury?
This person was a scientific director of the Manhattan Project that built the first atomic bomb, then working as a consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission, was stripped of his security clearance after a four-week hearing.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
This play focuses heavily on the fact that once accused, a person would have little chance of exoneration, given the irrational and circular reasoning of both the courts and the public.
What is The Crucible?
a right-wing Republican launched a series of highly publicized probes into alleged Communist penetration of the State Department
Who is Joe McCarthy?
Dark drinks like scotch have lots of vodka and fewer impurities called congeners a culprit in this nasty condition
What is a Hangover?
A video game that is based on Building and Crafting
What is Minecraft?