USA- Divided Union
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- Created on: 27-05-14 13:21
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- USA:Divided Union?
- 'Red Scare'= 1950's many were panicked by the communist threat
- Blacklisted = you could no longer work in the industry anymore
- destroyed thousands of peoples careers
- happened in broadcasting, schools and universities
- HUAC = Home UN-American Activities Committee
- 1950's & 40's focused on finding communists
- 1947- looked into film industry
- some directors and writers refused to answer- Hollywood Ten (blacklisted)
- McCarthyism
- 1950- speech
- McCarthy claimed a list of 205 communists in state department giving info to USSR
- Senate hearings- intimidated witnesses and pressured people into accusing others.
- FEAR made it possible
- Russians had a BOMB
- China had gone communist
- 1951- members of US communist party - Julius & Ethel Rosenburg- accused of passing atomic secrets - executed 1953
- Lost popularity- accused army of covering up communist infiltration
- Army-McCarthy hearing televised in 1954-people turned against him due to his bullying tactic
- 1950- speech
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