McCarthyism and Red Scare

I the 1950's Senator Joseph McCarthy won national attention when he...

• Was convicted as a spy.
• Claimed hundreds of government employees were communists.
• Helped Eisenhower become president.
• Went to Korea and said atomic weapons should be used to break the stalemate.

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The House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

• Protested racial segregation in the armed forces.
• Investigated disloyalty and harmful foreign influences in the United States. 
• Investigated U.S. involvement in the Korean War and its lack of progress towards victory.
• Tried to deport all foreigners or Un-American peo

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U.S. foreign policy followed during the Cold War that sought to prevent the expansion of Soviet Communism refers to what?  

• Brinkmanship
• Communism
• N.A.T.O. 
• Containment

The difference between a “hot” war and a “cold” war is that in a hot war, people engage in actual physical   fighting and in a cold war they do not.

• True
• False

The couple that was executed for spying and allegedly passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union were the   A. Hiss’s  B. Greenglass’s  C. Rosenberg’s  D. Chamber’s                   

• Hiss’s
• Greenglass’s
• Rosenberg’s
• Chamber’s

McCarthy's aides were

• Cohn & Schine
• Cohn & Lewis
• Schine & McCarthy
• Schine & Lewis

Rosenburg's were both guilty of being spies

• True
• False

Greenglass was related to 

• Julius Rosenberg
• Ethel Rosenberg
• Roy Cohn
• Joseph McCarthy

Joseph McCarthy was finally challenged by...

• Airforce
• Navy
• Army
• Marines

Why did no one challenge McCarthy?

• They loved him
• They thought he was funny
• They knew he was right
• They were afraid of him

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