Second Red Scare McCarthyism

Why did Arthur Miller write the Crucible?

• Someone told him to

• Inspired by his parents

• A teacher told him to write it

• He was inspired to write a drama reflecting mass cultural and political hysteria

What caused McCarthyism?

• President Truman making atomic bombs.

• Japanese spies.

• Bombing China.

• Increased fear of communism.

Between 1946 and 1954, the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator Joseph McCarthy attracted public attention by investigating

• allegations of Communist influences in government

• civil rights violations against African Americans

• corruption by companies in the defense industry

• war crimes of German and Japanese officials

The couple that was executed for spying and allegedly passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union were the...

• Hiss’s

• Greenglass’s

• Rosenberg’s

• Chamber’s

Which American state department official was accused of being a communist and taken to trial?

• Jake Spero

• Alger Hiss

• Mikhael Gorbachev

• Jarret Hurd

Senator McCarthy's popularity went down because he began to target...

• the House of Representatives

• the poor

• the US Army

• women and children

What was the Red Scare?

• fear of the spread of wealth

• fear of the spread of Communism

• fear of the spread of Capitalism 

• fear of job competition

What committee did Congress set up in order to look for Communists both inside and outside the government?

• McCarthyism

• Truman Doctrine

• House Un-American Activities Committee

• Hollywood Blacklist

What were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg accused of?

• sharing secret information about Soviet activity in the U.S.

• sharing secret atomic bomb information with the Soviets

• sharing secret election information with the Soviets

• sharing Truman's secret about the penguin and the burrito

What agreement did they publicly come to to end the crisis??

• USSR removes missiles, US doesn't invade Cuba

• The US uses all of their missiles and destroys Cuba

• Cuba joins the US side

• JFK gets tired of fighting and just makes a treaty