Cold War Red Scare

What organization formed to stop the spread of Communism?

• NATO

• NAFTA

• WPA

• USA

How did President Truman respond to the Berlin blockade that prevented supplies from getting the West Europe?

• He sent troops to attack the Soviet blockade.

• He authorized the use of the atomic bomb.

• He organized the Berlin Airlift to fly supplies to them.

What caused McCarthyism?

• President Truman making atomic bombs.

• Japanese spies.

• Bombing China.

• Increased fear of communism.

The House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

• Protested racial segregation in the armed forces.

• Investigated disloyalty and harmful foreign influences in the United States. 

• Investigated U.S. involvement in the Korean War and its lack of progress towards victory.

• Tried to deport all foreigners or Un-American peo

McCarthyism was what?

• a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

• an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

• a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

• The practice of accusing Americans of being communists without proper regard for evidence.

Open the photo to the left. What claim or argument was Margaret Chase Smith making about McCarthyism?

• That all communists were great and should be leaders in American government

• That McCarthy should be praised for his investigative work

• That communists should start a revolution in America based on free speech

• That McCarthy should realize that the American Constitution allows anyone to have any peaceful opinion they want

The Truman Doctrine became known as:

• The Marshall Plan

• The policy of Containment

• The Riga Axioms

• The Domino Theory

This idea said that if one country in Southeast Asia fell to Communism, many other countries would fall to Communism--

• Domino Theory

• Containment

• Eisenhower Doctrine

• Warsaw Pact

After the Korean war was over Korea was:

• divided into a Democratic republic in the south and a communist government in the north.

• governed by an alliance of western European nations.

• divided into a Democratic republic in the north a communist government in the south.

• unified for the first time in many years.

1. What was McCarthyism?

2. Why is it important that we understand it now given the current social media fake news in the United States?