2nd Red Scare

Question 1

Nationalist leader of Iran who was overthrown with the help of the US CIA. Replaced by Shah Mohommed Reza Pahlevi in 1953

Answer 1

Mohammand Mossadegh

Question 2

War between Chinese govt forces led by Chiang Ki-Shek and Communist forces led by Mao Zedong. In 1949 Chiang and his supporters fled to Taiwan, where they set up a seperate national govt

Answer 2

Chinese Civil War

Question 3

State Department official accused of being a Communist spy who was convicted of perjury and sent to prision

Answer 3

Alger Hiss

Question 4

Televised investigations by Senator McCarthy. The hearings ended McCarthy’s popularity and led to his censor of the US Senate

Answer 4

Army-McCarthy Hearings 1954

Question 5

Congressional Committee, created in 1938, that began suspecting potenial communists and fellow travelers in the late 40s and 50s

Answer 5

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Question 6

Nationalist leader of Vietnam who opposed the US during the Vietnam war

Answer 6

Ho Chi Minh

Question 7

Immigration law that permited deportation and denial of entry into the US for ideological reasons

Answer 7

McCarren-Walter Act 1952

Question 8

Husband and wife that were executed in 1953 for passing informatin of the atomic bomb to the Soviets

Answer 8

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Question 9

Executive agency composed of the president, vice president, and four chamber members. Established to coordinate the strategic policies and defense of the US

Answer 9

National Security Council 1947

Question 10

Republican Seneter from WI who in 1950 began a Communist witch-hunt that lasted until he was censored by the Senate in 1954

Answer 10

Joseph McCarthy

Question 11

Leader of Egypt who successfully opposed the French and British imperial powers during the 1956 Suez Crisis

Answer 11

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Question 12

Governtment agency created to gather and evaluate military, political, social and economic information on forign nations

Answer 12

Central Intellegence Agency (CIA) 1947

Question 13

Term used to describe the tactic of making accusations of corruption of disloyalty without evidence and no regard for civil liberties

Answer 13

McCarthyism

Question 14

Law that required Communists to register to the US govt and made it a crime to conspire to establish a totalitarian govt in the US. This law also allowed for the detension of dangerous, disloyal, or subversive persons

Answer 14

McCarren Internal Security Act 1950

Question 15

Someone who sympathized with or supported the beliefs of the Communist pary. Many of them were investaged and blacklisted during the late 40s and and 50s

Answer 15

Fellow Traveler