The Second Red Scare

Executive Order 9835, sometimes known as the (a)   , 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 (a)   .

The Wisconsin Senator (a)   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 (a)   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 (a)   community.

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

(a)  

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