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- Created on: 12-04-15 22:41
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- What caused the Red Scare?
- Hoover: strongly anti-communist
- director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- 1947
- President Truman let him set up The Federal Employee Loyalty program
- FBI could investigate government employees to see if they were current or former communists
- If guilty, put on the Black list
- Family and friends of a communist/ former communist were placed on the Black list too
- Fired, couldn't' find work
- If guilty, put on the Black list
- 1947-1950
- 3 million people investigated
- FBI could investigate government employees to see if they were current or former communists
- President Truman let him set up The Federal Employee Loyalty program
- the House of Un-American Activities commitee
- Set up to protect the US from threats
- 1947: Hollywood Ten
- FBI gave them evidence that communists were working in Hollywood as script writers, directors and actors.
- Various members questioned
- Some named names of people they suspected
- Walt Disney one of these
- 10 refused to answer questions
- Why?
- Had a right not to share information
- Result
- Sent to prison for over a year
- Lost future of work in Hollywood
- Friends and family blacklisted
- Made front page news
- Why?
- Some named names of people they suspected
- Various members questioned
- FBI gave them evidence that communists were working in Hollywood as script writers, directors and actors.
- Alger Hiss
- Whittaker Chambers admitted to HUAC he had been a communist in the 1930s.
- Said Hiss had been in the same group, but Hiss denied it.
- Nixon pursued it further
- Found evidence that Hiss had passed information to USSR in the war
- Sent to prison for misleading court about not knowing Whittaker
- Found evidence that Hiss had passed information to USSR in the war
- Nixon pursued it further
- Said Hiss had been in the same group, but Hiss denied it.
- Important person in State- betrayed own country
- Many Americans shocked
- Whittaker Chambers admitted to HUAC he had been a communist in the 1930s.
- 1949
- Hoover: strongly anti-communist
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