24 facts
The play by Arthur Miller is an allegory for McCarthyism.
What is The Crucible?
Communism growing in Eastern Europe and China.
What is the second red scare?
People who Infiltraited American Radio.
Who are communist spies?
Started keeping a list of organizations that it deemed subversive beginning in 1942.
Who is The Department of Justice?
Anti communist FBI director.
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
Communism emerging as a political force.
What is the Red Scare?
Controlled an army that gained control of mainland China.
Who is Mao Zedong.
A way of spreading communist awareness on paper.
A high-level State Department official, was convicted of perjury.
Who is Alger Hiss?
American spy for the Soviet Union.
Who is Elizabeth Terrill Bentley?
Built the first atomic bomb.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
The war began in 1950.
What is the Korean War?
McCarthy turned an attack on one of the former presidents of the US to questions directed at Eisenhower.
Who is President Truman?
During this hunt for Communists included government employees, those in the entertainment industry, educators and union activists.
Who are Primary targets?
Initiated a program of loyalty reviews for federal employees in 1947.
What is President Harry Truman's Executive Order?
Arrested on charges of stealing atomic bomb secrets for the Soviets.
Who is Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
A Mariene corps veteran who later ran for senate of wisconson in 1946.
Who is Joesph McCarthy?
Ike went out of his way to stop McCarthys reckless use of this.
What is subpoenas?
Hollywood entertainment professionals are suspected that their work was communist-inspired.
What is The Hollywood Blacklist?
A man who was fined $500, sentenced to thirty days in prison, blacklisted, and disallowed a U.S. passport.
Who is Arthur Miller.
A cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.
Who is Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko?
Anti comunist organization.
What is HUAC?
What is Liver failure?
A Person McCarty turned to the case of a cirten type of person who had been promoted to the rank of Major.
Who is a Dentist?
Some group and McCarthy traded charges and counter charges for 36 days.
What is the Army?