McCarthyism

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What was the 'Red Scare'?
The fear of communism developing across eastern Europe after the second world war would spread to America?
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What Anti-Communist director led the FBI to investigate 3Million of its employees from1947-50 for communist links?
J. Edgar Hoover
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In 1947 the HUAC investigated the 'Hollywood Ten' (actors, writters, producers..) for communist links they refused to answer what happened to them?
They were jailed for a year.
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IN 1948 Algaer hiss was investigated for what?
accused of being part of the Communist Party by a man who faced the HUAC called Whittaker Chambers in 1948
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In 1951 who was found guilty of Espionage (on flimsy evidence) for the USSR and were executed?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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what did McCarthys 'Witch-Hunt' lead to ?
people became black listed making it hard to fin jobs, over 100 university lecturers were fired !
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In 1945 McCarthy accused the army of:
Being communist Agents
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McCarthy's televised hearing between April 1954 and June 1954 showed he was;
Rude, Abusive and bullying and full of rumor and bluff
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