The Red Scare

Following World War II America and the Soviet Union were engaged in a largely political and economic conflict called the

• Cold War

• Space Race

• Arms Race

• Cuban Missile Crisis

Reorder the following from first to last

• Death of Stalin

• Warsaw Pact

• The Korean War

• Suez War

• Sputnik and the Space Race

Do you think the actions taken by the government during the Red Scare were acceptable?

• YES

• NO

Despite all the ​ (a)   very few ​ (b)   were found to actually be ​ (c)   and the witch hunts of the 1950's ruined thousands of lives and reputations with baseless ​ (d)  

• hysteria
• communist sympathizers
• revolutionaries
• accusations

Match the following

• Violated the first amendment

• Rosengbergs

• Executed for espionage

• Alger Hiss

• convicted of perjury related to espionage

• Dennis v United States

Who was the senator that became most connected with the communist witch hunts of the Cold War?

Bowing to pressure from HUAC the film industry

• blacklisted suspected radicals

• implemented a voluntary code of conduct

• adopted a policy of self-censorship

• refused to employ people of Russian descent

​ (a)   was formed in 1938 and sought to expose ​ (b)   working inside the ​ (c)   or the ​ (d)  

• HUAC
• communists
• federal government
• film industry
• banking industry
• education industry

Executive Order 9835, also known as the loyalty order

• Investigated Federal employees to determine if they were loyal Americans

• Established a system of background checks for federal employees

• Established a system of security clearances for federal employees

• Established a system of polygraph tests for federal employees

FBI director ​ (a)   was quick to associate any type of protest with communist subversion, going so far as to label ​ (b)   as a communist to try to discredit him.

• J.Edgar Hoover
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Harry Truman
• Joseph McCarthy
• Alger Hiss