The Cold War at Home / The Cold War Expands

What organization was created by Congress to hunt for communist spies?

• Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA)
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• House Un-American Activites Commitee (HUAC)

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.

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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McCarthyism was what?

• a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
• an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
• a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
• The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.

Once someone was placed on a blacklist, what was the consequence?

• They would not get hired
• They would be executed
• They would be removed from public office
• The would be put on trial

Students practiced nuclear safety drills in school known as?

• Bert the Turtle
• Duck and Cover
• Stop, Drop, and Roll
• Operation Alert

Shelters such as this represented American concern about 

• the potential threat of domestic terrorism in the 1950s
• the increasing number of natural disasters in the 1950s
• a potential nuclear attack during the Cold War
• a successful launch of a Soviet satellite into space.

McCarthyism was based on people's ________ of communism

• Support
• Fear
• Use
  Love
• Practice

During the Cold War, why were people building bomb shelters near or under their houses?

• To hide atomic weapons
• America was the only nuclear super power
• Fear was heightened during the Cold War
• People distrusted the government

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This couple was found guilty of espionage and sentenced to death.

• The Rosenbergs

• The McCarthys

• The Weingaertners

• The Whittakers