13-3 The Cold War Begins: Cold War and American Society

_____________—a diplomat who had served in Roosevelt’s administration, attended the Yalta Conference, and helped organize the United Nations—was accused of being a Communist spy and later convicted of perjury

• Joseph McCarthy

• Ethel Rosenberg

• Richard Nixon

• Alger Hiss

After winning the 1946 Senate election in Wisconsin by accusing his opponent of being “communistically inclined,” ____________________ continued to proclaim that Communists were a danger both at home and abroad.

• Julius Rosenberg

• Joseph McCarthy

• Ronald Reagan

• Alger Hiss

. The ____________________ Act required all Communist Party and “Communist-front” organizations to register with the United States attorney general and publish their records.

• McCarran

• Truman

• Marshall

• McCarthy

Julius and Ethel ____________________ were convicted of espionage and executed in June 1953, although many people believed that they were victims caught in a wave of anti-Communist frenzy

• Rosenberg

• Truman

• McCarthy

• Hiss

What did President Harry Truman establish in early 1947 to screen all federal employees?

• HUAC

• Project Verona

• the loyalty review program

• the subcommittee on investigations

What impact did the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings have on Hollywood?

• Actors were required to swear that they were not Communists.

• Many actors were denied passports and could not travel abroad.

• Ronald Reagan was accused of being a Communist sympathizer.

• Producers blacklisted anyone who was believed to be a Communist.

In 1953 Americans were shocked when the Soviet Union tested the

• hydrogen bomb.

• first fallout shelters.

• Sputnik satellite

• spy code.