Truman - Red Scare

Question 1

McCarran internal security act

Answer 1

• 1950
• a law that required the registration of communists

Question 2

Rosenbergs

Answer 2

• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
• arrested in 1949 on suspicion of spying
• accused of selling nuclear secrets to the USSR
• executed in 1953

Question 3

hollywood 10

Answer 3

• 1947
• HUAC investigate 10 Hollywood writers and directors
• sacked, spent a year in prison and blacklisted

Question 4

Alger Hiss

Answer 4

• 1948
• Alger Hiss, high ranking member of the us state department
• accused of spying
• HUAC leader, Richard Nixon shown proof by editor Whittaker chambers
• Hiss sentenced to 5 years in jail

Question 5

Mccarthy’s list in government

Answer 5

• february 1950
• 205 names in govenment
• influenced Truman’s loss in the 1952 elections