Cold War at Home: Review

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)

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

First general loyalty program in the United States, designed to root out communist influence in the U.S. federal government.

• Hollywood Ten 
• Collective security
• Loyalty Review Boards
• Black list

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.

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.

A marked increase in the birthrate, especially in the US following WWII

• Baby Boom
• Summit
• Perjury
• Arms Race

The vast majority of new homes in the 1950’s were built here

• suburbs
• cities
• barrios
• sub-divisions

Referring to workers who do manual labor and wear work clothes.

• work force
• blue collar
• white collar
• unions

“White flight” involved the mass exodus of white Americans from the nation’s ____

• cities
• suburbs
• farms
• coast lines

How did HUAC's policies impact citizens?

• They had no impact on citizens

• The government endangered people's rights

• The government supported Communist ideas

• They supported nuclear war