Internal Political Developments
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- Created on: 28-05-15 22:08
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- International Political Developments
- Federal Employee Loyalty Program
- Helped J Edgar Hoover: it allowed his FBI loyalty boards to investigate government employees to see their background did/didn't surround Communism
- HUAC
- Had right to investigate anyone suspected being un-American (mostly Communist)
- Put people out of their jobs + into jail; as it got a bigger issue, found itself into knowledge of many
- Had right to investigate anyone suspected being un-American (mostly Communist)
- Hiss Case (Alger Hiss)
- High-ranking member of US State Dept
- Said to have been Communist in 1930s by Whittaker Chambers to HUAC
- Lied about not spying for USSR in court, 1950
- Spent nearly 5 years in prison as Nixon pursued case after Truman dismissed it
- Julius & Ethel Rosenbergs
- 1950: German-born British physicist, Klaus Fuchs, was convicted of passing US + British atomic secrets to USSR
- Led to suspicians over Rosenbergs
- March 1951: Trial, all charges dropped
- June 1953: Executed with flimsy evidence, though more evidence has now been found
- Coded telegrams were found between Rosenbergs + Soviet agents (1944: beginning, 1955: published)
- 1950: German-born British physicist, Klaus Fuchs, was convicted of passing US + British atomic secrets to USSR
- McCarran Act
- Hiss + Rosenberg Cases helped lead to Internal Security Act of 1950 ('McCarran Act')
- Pushed through by Nevada Senator Pat McCarran
- Included 'rules' for Communists in USA
- J Edgar Hoover
- Strong anti-Communist director
- Driving force behind Red Scare
- Helped FBI with Federal Employee Loyalty Program
- Richard Nixon
- Young politician + member of HUAC
- Pursued dropped Hiss Case
- Found evidence to support + oppose Hiss Case
- Federal Employee Loyalty Program
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