Red Scare

1. HUAC: House Un-American Activities Committee
Created in 1938
Its goal was to investigate pro-soviet and pro-communist films and to get rid of such propaganda in american films.

2. Blacklist
Hollywood executives made a list of actors who were suspected of being communists or even procommunism. These actors' careers were affectively destoyed because once an actor was on the list it was impossible for him to get hired again because no employer would be willing to hire a communist.

3. Alger Hiss
A former Soviet spy accused Alger Hiss of being a soviet spy. In his atempt to prove Hiss guilty Chambers showed document which he claimed had been typed on Hiss' typewriter.

4. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
On September 3, 1949 the soviets successfully built an attomic bomb. The Rosenburgs were suspected of telling the soviets about the american atomic bomb. They were a part of the american communist party. In 1953 they were sentenced to death.

5. Joseph McCarthy
Was a very famous anti communist. A republican senator from Wisconsin who decided to accuse other congress men of being pro-communism because he wanted to be reelected and he knew that nearly all americans were fearful of a communist take over in america. In 1953 he lost support because he started making accusations against the US army and began bullying witnesses this resulted in a televised invesigation and his career was ruined.

6. McCarthyism
"has reffered to the unfair tactic of accusing people of disloyalty with out providing evidence."

7. In a paragraph, describe the motivations and actions of Joseph McCarthy during the 1950s. What prompted his actions? What did he do? What happened as a result of his actions?
McCarthy's desicion to be anti communist and start the witch hunts because he realised that it would be a good way to win the hearts of the american people. Getting rid of communism was seen as a patriotic thing to do in the late fourties and fifties. Regardless of the fact that there may or may not have been enough evidence most of the people he accussed of being communists and a threat to america were convicted.