McCarthyism
Warm-up
•What was the Red
Scare?
Announcements
• Quiz Today
• I will review with you guys for about 20
minutes
Quiz Review
• Communism vs. Democracy
• Why did the Cold War start?
• What are NATO, deterrent, Truman Doctrine,
Berlin Airlift, Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay or Pigs,
and the Marshall Plan, Korean War.
Quiz Time
• No Talking
• No cheating
Vocabulary
• Red Scare- period in American
history where there was great
fear of communism in the
United States. There were two
Red Scares, the first from
1918-1921 and the second
from 1947-1957.
Dot Game
• Each of you will be given an index card. Some
of the index cards will have red stickers on
them. Some will not have anything on them.
• Your job is to question your classmates to
figure out who has the red dots.
• You cannot show your card to anyone.
• The goal of the game is the create the largest
group of people without a red dot.
• Questions?
Dot Game Debrief
• How did it feel to be questioned?
• Was it easy or hard to convince your
classmates that you did not have a red dot?
Why or why not?
• What did you rely on to decide who had a red
dot and who did not have a red dot?
• Do you think this game was a fair way to find
the people with the red dots? Why or Why
not?
Notes
• We are going to do our notes a little differently
today.
• The five terms below are what you need to have
information on.
• On one side of your paper write the first term
and skip 5 lines, then write the next one and keep
doing this until you have written all the terms.
• Red Scare
• HUAC
• Joseph McCarthy
• Rosenberg Trial
• Civil Liberties
Why did we have a Second Red Scare?
• As the cold war started there was fear of
Soviet spies in the United States.
• In addition, the Soviets created their own
atomic bomb in 1949.
• Americans were afraid that their national
security was at risk.
Red Scare
• During this time many in film, radio and
movies were blacklisted.
• This means that they were put on a list of
people not to hire because they were thought
to be communists.
HUAC and McCarthy
• The House Un-American Activities Committee
was founded in 1938 to investigate disloyalty
and harmful foreign influences in the U.S. but
was used extensively after 1947 to find
communists.
• HUAC launched a series of widely publicized
hearings targeting Hollywood.
• In 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy began a
campaign to expose Communists all over the
U.S.
Senator Joseph McCarthy
HUAC and McCarthy continued
• McCarthy created a list of high level U.S.
operative who he believed to be Communists.
• The public was outraged and investigations
started. Anyone who challenged McCarthy
was looked at as being a Communist or
sympathizing with Communists.
• He attacked dozens of innocent people.
• He was only stopped when he accused the
military of housing Communists
Rosenberg Trial
• Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were American
communists who were convicted of sending
American Nuclear secrets to the Soviets
• They were both executed.
• This caused a huge stir in America because
may believed they were unfairly punished
because of the hysteria of the Red Scare
The Rosenbergs
What Civil liberties did the Red Scare
limit?
• Freedom from discrimination
• Freedom of speech and thought
• Freedom of association
Red Scare Political Cartoons
• We are going to look at a few political
cartoons to get a better idea of the Red Scare.
• You will draw 4 t-charts on your paper that
look like the one below.
• What I see
What it means
Cartoon 1
Cartoon 2
Cartoon 3
Exit Slip
• Write a 1 paragraph newspaper article or draw
a political cartoon about how the Red Scare
limited the civil liberties of Americans.
• If you draw a cartoon write a 1 sentence
description of the cartoon underneath.