CS 24 - Cold War At Home Vocabulary

The ________ was a period of strong anti-Communism in United States history from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s and signified the entrance into the Cold War.

• Second Red Scare

• Progressive Era

• First Red Scare

• Reconstruction

_____ claimed, without evidence, that there were large numbers of spies and communists in US government.

• evidence

• support

• proof

• verification

____ is a term used for a period of intense suspicion in the United States primarily from 1950 to 1954, when the U.S. government was actively looking for Communists and non-Americans. Often accusations were made without evidence.

• McCarthyism

• The New Deal

• The Great Society

• Socialism

______ investigated individuals involved in "un-American activities," such as participation in the Communist party.

• Loyalty Review Boards

• House Un-American Activities Committee

• Federal Reserve

• The Peace Corps

______ (Abbreviation) was committee created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist sympathies.

• HUAC

• NATO

• SALT

• CCC

A list of people under suspicion of Communism or sympathizing with Communism, who were prevented from working or finding work under McCarthyism.

• Blacklist

• Yellow Journalism

• White Papers

• Containment Policy

Suspected attempts by Americans to bring communist practices to the United States.

• Communist Subversion

• Containment

• Brinkmanship

• Détente

Found guilty and sentenced to death for selling atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union, but some were not sure of their guilt.

• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

• Alger Hiss

• Joseph McCarthy

• The Hollywood Ten

A former state department official who was found guilty of serving as a spy for the Soviet Union and imprisoned for 48 months.

• Alger Hiss:

• Julius Rosenberg

• Joseph McCarthy

• Richard Nixon

A group of motion picture stars that were imprisoned for their refusal to testify or cooperate with the investigation of HUAC.

• Hollywood Ten

• The Black Panthers

• The Silent Majority

• The Red Scare Coalition