The Red Scare and McCarthyism

________ was a symptom of a massive and widespread anticommunist hysteria that engulfed Cold War America.

• McCarthyism

• Maoism

• Stalinism

• Trumanism

In Congress, the _______ ________ ______ ______ held hearing s on the communist influence in American Society.

• Senate Un-American Activities Committee

• Senate Committee on Communist Spies

• House Un-American Activities Committee

• House Committee on Communist Spies

_______ _______ became Soviet Premier (President) after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953.

• Vladimir Lenin

• Joseph McCarthy

• Nikita Khruschev

• Mikhail Gorbachev

Joseph McCarthy claimed that the President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was a Communist Spy.

• True

• False

When did the Red Scare take place?

• 1940s

• 1970s

• 1960s

• 1950s

Joseph McCarthy was a _______ from _______.

• Senator, Wisconsin

• Congressman, Tennessee

• Governor, Wyoming

• State Department Official, Massachusetts

McCarthy said that the State Department had employees who were...

• Stealing government documents

• Spies for the Soviet Union

• Running for the presidency

• Bringing Soviet Spies into the United States

McCarthy's accusations of government officials being Soviet spies was proven to be...

• True

• False

Ethel and Julius _______ were found to have given nuclear secrets to the Soviets and were eventually executed.

• Albright

• McCarthy

• Rosenberg

• Hiss

What does it mean to be "blacklisted"?

• To face federal punishment for proving to have been a spy

• To be excluded from Hollywood

• To declare that you were not a communist spy

• To be blamed for something not proven to be true