USA - the Red Scare facts

Question 1

FBI

Answer 1

-director: J. Edgar Hoover
-investigated about 3 mil to see if they were communists

Question 2

execution of the Rosenbergs

Answer 2

-Klaus Fuchs convicted of passing A-Bomb secrets to USSR in 1950
-Julius and Ethel Rosenberg arrested in connection with Fuchs, executed in 1953

Question 3

HUAC

Answer 3

-set up by congress
-blacklisted people suspected of communist activities including the Hollywood 10

Question 4

McCarthyism

Answer 4

-1950
-Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have over 200 communist names woking in US government departments
-exaggeration, only 22
-‘witch hunts’
-HUAC blacklisted 324 hollywood personalities

Question 5

the McCarran Act

Answer 5

-1950
-communist organisations had to be registered
-no communist allowed a passport
-detention camps

Question 6

The Hiss Case

Answer 6

Nixon and HUAC accused Alger Hiss of passing secrets
-jail for 5 years in 1950

Question 7

outcome

Answer 7

-americans scared of USSR and War, government used this to make them anti-communist
-believed propaganda and lies
-McCarthy believed by public and presidents
-execution, imprisonment and blacklisting reaction of fears
-McCarthy’s downfall from Ed Murrow criticising
-ended by 1950s-60s