The Second Red Scare and the Cold War

Being put on a list of people who are disapproved of and therefore should be avoided (or not hired)

Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed he had a list with the names of 205 Communists working for the ______.

To protect themselves from a nuclear bomb, some families built backyard _____ and stocked them with canned goods.

Fear that Communists were trying to infiltrate or overthrow the American government

An American diplomat who served under FDR at Yalta and who helped organize the United Nations; accused of being a Communist spy

New York Communist couple accused of selling atomic bomb secrets to the soviets

Making accusations of disloyalty to the country, subversion or treason without proper evidence in the 1950s

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

A congressional committee that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government in the years following World War II.

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.

Actor in the 1950s who testified about people he knew or suspected to be Communists; he would later be elected president in 1980

ten witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with the HUAC's investigation of Communist influence in Hollywood

An investigation carried on with much publicity, supposedly to uncover dangerous activity but actually intended to weaken the political opposition.

A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.

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.