McCarthyism and the red scare
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- KT1: McCarthyism and the Red Scare
- The Red Scare
- McCarthy had a list of communist worker- Number changes
- From 1945 onwards due to Cold war
- resulted in communist hunting.
- Fear of communism and the spread of it
- Hollywood 10
- Suspected of being communist
- The Hiss Case
- Atomic bomb increases USA fear
- Arrested for being communist
- Found guilty and reputation was ruined
- 1948 Alger Hiss-government advisor
- Citizens feared all the government was communist
- Rise and fall of McCarthy
- He claimed he had a list of communists working for the governemtn
- McCarthy saw this as a way to gain power and fame
- Communist hunts began
- RISE- 1949 China bacame communist
- FALL- 1950 People began to question McCarthy
- He was called a fraud and a hoax
- Produced fake photos and letters- banned from public speaking
- Rosenberg case
- Weak evidence but were sentenced to death
- July 1950-accused of selling bombs to the USSR
- They were killed in the electric chair.
- Rosenbergs Julius and Ethel, worked on the atomic bomb
- The Red Scare
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