The Red Scare
- Created by: William Evered
- Created on: 23-03-14 11:18
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- The Red Scare
- The Red Scare
- The first Red Scare was caused by The Russian Revolution in 1919
- The military containment policy was devised in 1945 to stop Soviet expansion
- National security was linked to loyalty and anti-communism in the USA
- During WW2 the US government had allied withe the USSR to win the war.
- USA and International communism
- President Truman was accused of taking a sympathetic approach towards communism
- The Korean War
- 3 years of the Korean War was a stalemate
- 2700 Korean civilians were killed
- The Domino Theory
- President Eisenhower called the spread of communism the "Domino Theory"
- While the policy may appear incredibly simplistic, it was utterly believed and later used to justify full-scale US involvement in the Vietnam War.
- How did the Red Scare escalate?
- Pat McCarren persuaded people that there were communist in the USA
- Klaus Fuchs and Harry Gold were accused of passing nuclear bomb secrets onto the USSR
- The Rosenbergs were executed for the same crime
- Soviets admitted that 221 operatives had spied in the US government during the War
- Alger Hiss was put in jail for 5 years for perjury
- He really passed documents
- The Hollywood 10 were sacked and improsend for refusing to answer HUAC questions
- In 1947 Truman introduced The Loyalty Review Board to check up on government employees
- 7200 government employees resigned or were sacked
- The USSR exploded its first nuclear bomb in 1949
- This led to an arms race to develop the hydrogen bomb which was 1000 times more powerful than the atom bomb
- Either side never used as it would end the world
- McCarthyism
- On the 9th Feb 1950 McCarthy gave his speech accusing the state department of being communist
- McCarthy had no evidence to back up his claims
- McCarthy was put in charge of the Senate committee on government operations
- The fear of communism gripped the USA so people believed McCarthy
- Librarians banned books about Robin Hood as it promoted communism
- McCarthy attacked the army that led to his downfall
- As they fought communist in Korea
- Joseph Welch and Eisenhower turned on McCarthy
- David Schine McCarthy aide tried to help avoid the draft
- The Senate censured McCarthy. He disappeared from politics and died of alcoholism in 1957
- The Red Scare
- Pat McCarren persuaded people that there were communist in the USA
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