Red Scare

__________was an American attorney who investigated Communist activity in the United States during the Red Scare. He represented wealthy people in divorces and mobsters being targeted by federal government.

• Elon Musk

• Elia Kazan

• Roy Cohn

• Clarence Darrow

____________was then created to investigate alleged disloyal and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties.

• HUAC

• HUMAC

• UMASS

• KNKX

___________was the act of tainting the careers of others with certain accusations.

• Whitewashing

• Blacklisting

• J'accuse

• Fingerpointing

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The simple action of being _________________ a communist could render one unhirable because the employer does not want to have ties to communists and then have ties themselves.

• labeled

• imagined

• thought

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The _________________________ were members of the Hollywood film industry who refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliation. After spending time in _________________ they were blacklisted by the Hollywood studios.

• Hollywood 9 / Hollywood

• Hollywood 10 / Prison

• D.C. 10 / Mar a Lago

• Movie Men / New York

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The U.S. also feared that _______________________ agents had infiltrated the federal ___________________.

• communist / government

• socialist / congress

• capitalist / securities commission

• baptist / tax agency

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________________________’s testimony to the congress helped end the careers of former acting colleagues Morris Carnovsky and Art Smith, along with ending the work of playwright Clifford Odets.

• Elon Musk

• Arthur Miller

• Elia Kazan

• Roy Cohn

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Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible to alert the American people against the government misinformation & _____________ that were headed their way. And during the tense era of McCarthyism, celebrated playwright Arthur Miller was inspired to write a drama reflecting the mass cultural and political _______________ produced when the U.S. government sought to suppress Communism and radical leftist activity in America.

• propaganda / hysteria

• news / music

• misdirection / death

• politicizing / communists

Miller travelled to ______________, Massachusetts to research the Witch Trials of ___________, and then started to write The Crucible to alert the American people.

• Boston / 1742

• Salem / 1692

• McDonald / 1950

• Pillary / 1401

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What was Joseph McCarthy's profession?

• U.S. Senator
• Wisconsin Senator
• Cincinnati Zoo zookeeper 
• None of the above

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