THE COLD WAR AT HOME

Fear of the Reds

Loyalty Review Board• 1947 by Truman

• Federal Employee Loyalty Program & Loyalty Review Board

• Dismiss disloyal employees

• 1947-1951 investigated 3.2 million people

House of Un-American Activities (HUAC)

Investigate Communist Influence 1947

Investigated movie industry Sneaking propaganda in movies

Hollywood Ten• 10 men

• Refused to testify

• Believed hearings were unconstitutional

• Sent to prison

Hollywood Blacklist

By Hollywood executives

List of people condemned for Communist background

500 actors, writer, producers, directors

Could no longer work

Careers ruined

Alger Hiss

• 1948

• Accused of spying for the Soviets

• Sent to prison for perjury

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg • 1950

• Implicated in Klaus Fuchs case

• Accused and convicted of espionage

• Sentenced to death

Joseph McCarthy• Sen. from

Wisconsin

• Communists were taking over the government

• Unsupported accusations

McCarthyism

Footage of McCarthyism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnUf30oefQw

He may be a Communist if…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWeZ5SKXvj8