RED SCAR (1950's)

For each term or name, write a concise sentence or two explaining its significance.


1. HUAC
It was this organization that identified potentional commmunists and brought them to trial.

2. Blacklist
When someone can no longer get a job in their industry and is essentially banished .

3. Alger Hiss
A supposed Soviet spy who was accused by a fromer spy, WHittaker Chambers. He was convicted for perjury.

4. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Two minor activists in the American COmmunist Party who were executed for espionage for leaking information about the atomic bomb to the USSSR.


5. Joseph McCarthy
An extremeley anti-communist senator who made many unfounded accaustations about communists so he would be reelected.

6. McCarthyism
Unfounded attacks on suspected communists.

7. In a paragraph, describe the motivations and actions of Joseph McCarthy during the 1950s. What prompted his actions? What did he do? What happened as a result of his actions?

McCarthy wanted to use the hystery created by communism to get himself elected. But when he accused the US army of being communist, there was a trial and he made himself look stupid and he lost public support. Three years later he died of alcoholism.