The Second Red Scare and the Cold War
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- Q1
Being put on a list of people who are disapproved of and therefore should be avoided (or not hired)
Red Channels
Blacklisted
McCarthyism
Hollywood Ten
30s - Q2
Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed he had a list with the names of 205 Communists working for the ______.
House of Representatives
Executive Branch
Department of the Interior
State Department
30s - Q3
To protect themselves from a nuclear bomb, some families built backyard _____ and stocked them with canned goods.
public shelters
duck and cover
fallout shelters
treehouses
30s - Q4
Fear that Communists were trying to infiltrate or overthrow the American government
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An American diplomat who served under FDR at Yalta and who helped organize the United Nations; accused of being a Communist spy
Senator Joseph McCarthy
Julius Rosenberg
Harry Truman
Alger Hiss
30s - Q6
New York Communist couple accused of selling atomic bomb secrets to the soviets
Bonnie and Clyde
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Branch and Poppy
Sacco and Vanzetti
30s - Q7
Making accusations of disloyalty to the country, subversion or treason without proper evidence in the 1950s
Red Scare
McCarthyism
Salem Witch Trials
Palmer Raids
30s - Q8
Wisconsin senator claimed to have list of communists in American gov't, but no credible evidence; took advantage of fears of communism post WWII to become incredibly influential
Senator Barry Goldwater
Senator John F. Kennedy
Senator Joseph McCarthy
Senator Richard Nixon
30s - Q9
A congressional committee that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government in the years following World War II.
Espionage and Treason Committee (EATC)
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
The Red Scare Scaries Committee (TRSSC)
Finance for America Committee (FAC)
30s - Q10
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
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Actor in the 1950s who testified about people he knew or suspected to be Communists; he would later be elected president in 1980
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
30s - Q12
ten witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with the HUAC's investigation of Communist influence in Hollywood
Blacklisted Actors
Hollywood Ten
HUAC Bunch
LA Angels
30s - Q13
An investigation carried on with much publicity, supposedly to uncover dangerous activity but actually intended to weaken the political opposition.
Hunt for Communists
Investigation Public
Witch Hunt
Testimony
30s - Q14
A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.
Satellite Nations
Territory
Puppet Master
Takeover
30s - Q15
A phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the imaginary line that separated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from the countries in Western Europe.
Iron Curtain
Berlin Wall
Steel Divider
Bloc
30s