24 Facts
Initiated the second red scare in the US
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Throughout the 1940-50's America was concerned about communism growing in Eastern Europe and China
What is the second red scare?
Who is Alger Hiss?
Gained a membership of about 75,000 members in 1940-1941
What is the Communist Party in the US?
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?
Inspired by communism's emergence as a recognized political force
What is the first red scare?
Who tested an atomic bomb in 1949
What is the Soviet Union?
Brought the threat of communism to life
What is comic books and pulp fiction magazines?
Who was the US allied with during WWII
What is the Soviet Union?
Anti-communist organization that led the hunt for American communists and communist sympathizers
What is The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
An American spy for the soviet union from 1938 until 1945
Who is Elizabeth Terrill Bentley?
Among the first film industry witnesses subpoenaed by the Committee were ten who decided not to cooperate
Who is the Hollywood Ten?
Paranoia about the internal communist threat
What is the Red Scare?
The Cold War and fears of communism being again
What is the Soviet Union expanding its territory?
A program of loyalty reviews for federal employees in 1947
What is President Harry Truman's Executive Order 9835?
A play that is an allegory for McCarthyism written by Arthur Miller
What is The Crucible?
Named as a suspected communist by another suspect at the hearings
Who is Arthur Miller?
Ike had helped bring it to a bitter end
What is McCarthyism?
Gained control of mainland China despite heavy American financial support of the opposing Kuomintang
What is Mao Zedong's communist army?
Arrested in 1950 on charges of stealing atomic bomb secrets for the Soviets and were executed in 1953
Who is Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
Who are primary targets during the search for communists
What are government employees, educators and union activists, and those in the entertainment industry?
Who was Arthur Miller married to at the time
Who is Marilyn Monroe?
Argued that Eisenhower's handling of McCarthy provides evidence of a "hidden hand" approach to government
Who is Fred Greenstein?
A famous speech in Wheeling WV on February 9, 1950
What is the 1950 Joseph McCarthy speech?
One of the nation's most fervent anti-communists, and one of the most powerful, was fanatically involved in the pursuit of subversive Communists in the United States
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?