24 Facts
Arthur Miller was a playwriter of the 1953 hit
What is The Crucible?
Joseph McCarthy was a Marine Corps veteran
What is WWII?
¨No one dared tangle with McCarthy for fear of being labeled¨
What is disloyal?
Many conservatives equated the New Deal with socialism or
What is Communism?
Name one group McCarthyism was supported by
What is American Legion, American Public Relations Forum, the Minute Women of the U.S.A., and United Nations Alaska Mental Health Bill?
The Hollywood Blacklist came into being in 1947 under being the suspicion of being
What is the suspicion of being a communist?
Allied with the U.S during WWII
What is the Soviet Union?
McCarthy and Cohn now stood accused
What is abused power?
J. Edgar Hoover was
What is FBI director?
More conservative politicians who referred to progressive reforms such as child labor laws and women's suffrage as
"Communist" or "Red plots"
Joseph McCarthy was a U.S Senator
What is Republican?
Mao Zedong's Communist army gained control of mainland
What is China?
Could be lurking anywhere
What is Communists?
¨began almost immediately, as the Soviet Union installed repressive Communist puppet régimes across Central and Eastern Europe¨
What is The Cold War?
Communist Party of the United States reached highest peak of in 1940-1
What is 75,000 members?
What Elizabeth Terrill Bentley was
What is a double agent?
The year that The Soviet Union tested an atomic bomb
What is 1949?
This paranoia about the internal Communist
What is threat?
Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko was a cipher clerk for
What is Soviet Embassy to Canada?
William F. Buckley, Jr., was a conservative American author and
What is commentator?
The first year of the first Red Scare
What is 1917?
The year if The Second Red Scare
What is during the 1940's and 1950's?
Ike had helped bring it to the bitter end
What is McCarthyism?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested in 1950 on charges
What is stealing atomic bomb secrets?
Much of the undoing of McCarthyism came at the hands of the
What is The Supreme Court.