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The Second Red Scare and the Cold War

Quiz by Amy Kelly

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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

    Users re-arrange answers into correct order
    Jumble
    30s
  • Q5

    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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    Jumble
    30s
  • Q11

    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

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