The Second Red Scare

Executive Order 9835, sometimes known as the ________________, was designed to weed out communist influences in the U.S. and set the stage for the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy.

The American born-and-rasied husband and wife Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were accused of being Soviet Spies and Communists. In 1953, the U.S. government:

• Deported them to the newly founded state of Israel.

• Sentenced them to life imprisonment in Sing Sing.

• Executed them.

• Found them not-guilty and eventually hired Julius as FBI director.

The former Soviet Spy Whittaker Chambers investigated the "supposedly" Soviet Spy Alger Hiss and accused him of keeping top-secret documents in a pumpkin in his backyard. These (imaginary) documents were known as the ______________.

The Wisconsin Senator ________________ started the 2nd Red Scare as a way to make Democrats look soft and ineffectual and himself strong and important.

Joseph McCarthy waved around a piece of paper on a televised meeting that supposedly had the names of _______ communists who were employed by the U.S. government.

During The Red Scare, another, similar, kind of witch-hunt started known as "The Lavender Scare." Instead of hunting down communists, The Lavender Scare hunted down members of the _______________ community.

J. Edgar Hoover was the Director of which Government Agency?

The hunt for communists in the U.S. government lead to more than ______________ investigations and _____________ people being fired.

• 10,000 / 10,000

• 150,000 / 600

• 3,000,000 / 300

• 3,000,000 / 150,000

Joseph McCarthy finally lost popularity when he began being critical of _____________.

• The U.S. military

• The Catholic Church

• The Republican Party

• The Fire-Fighters Union

HUAC, or The House Un-American Activities Committee, shifted the focus of the Red Scare from investigating government employees to investigating:

• Members of the Military

• Hollywood Celebrities

• Licences Gun Owners

• Immigrants