Cold War@Home

Second Red Scare

Just like the first one 1917

But

The Suburban Boom

Baby BoomersSuburban growth Capitalism makes homes and neighborhoods

Eisenhower Interstate Highway

Executive Order 9835: Allows FBI to investigate federal employees for security risk

Local governments Colleges Businesses

Workers must take an oath. UCLA fired 157 faculty members refusing to take the oath

Executive Order 10450 April 27, 1953

Any criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful conduct, habitual use of intoxicants to excess, drug addiction, sexual perversion

Outcome: Target homosexuals

HUAC House Committee on un-American Activities

Target: Writers and directors of Hollywood

Hollywood 10: Ten Hollywood creators blacklisted

Herbert Biberman and others refused to answer questions in Congress about their communist beliefs. Some sent to jail

Senator McCarthy and McCarthyism 1950

I have a list of 250 known communist who are still working in the State

Department

Wait I mean

81

Wait I mean

57

We need to

investigate the Army

McCarthy Hearings 1954McCarthy vs. U.S. Army

Senate votes 67 to 22 to censure McCarthy

McCarthy dies three years later

Joe-1 August 29, 1949