Chapter 26 Section 3
The Cold War at Home
Objectives
• We will learn how the Cold War
affected politics in the United States.
Vocabulary
• HUAC
• Hollywood Ten
• Blacklist
• Alger Hiss
• Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
• Joseph McCarthy
• McCarthyism
Fear
• What are you afraid of?
Fear of Communism
• Soviet Union
• China
• Korea
• United States?
How to Stop Communism Spreading
• Republicans wanted Truman to be hard
on communism in the US.
• What should he do?
• Federal Employee Loyalty Program
• Loyalty Review Board
Loyalty Review Board
• 91 “Subversive” Organizations
• Investigated 3,200,000 employees
• Dismissed 212
• 2,900 resignations
HUAC
• House Un-American Activities Committee
(HUAC)
• Investigated Hollywood.
• Pro-Soviet movies
• Hollywood Ten “unfriendly” witnesses
• Sent to prison
• Blacklist
• 500 actors and writers
McCarran Act
• 1950 – Unlawful to plan any action
that might lead to a totalitarian
dictatorship.
• Truman vetoed
• Congress overruled
Spy vs. Spy
• Former communist spy
• Alger Hiss
• Congressional investigation
• Congressman Nixon
More Spies
• Atomic Bomb
• Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
• Pled the fifth
• Found guilty
• Death Sentence
Witch hunts
• Senator Joseph McCarthy
• What is a politicians biggest goal?
• 1950
• McCarthyism
• A list of names.
McCarthy’s Downfall
• 1954 McCarthy makes accusations
against the US Army.
• Senate investigation
• Bullying