1. The Red Scare

2. What is the Red Scare? Communists both inside & outside
Working to destroy American life
Prominent in late 1940s & early 1950s

3. House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Investigated Communist activities in US
Armed forces, government, unions, education
1947: Hollywood Ten investigated
Blacklist created

4. Alger Hiss Whittaker Chambers (former Communist) Hiss Richard Nixon
Accuses Alger Hiss of being a Communist
Hiss
Denies claim
Richard Nixon
Convinces HUAC to press the case
Decision: Hiss found guilty of perjury

5. The Rosenbergs Julius & Ethel
Charged with passing secret information to Soviets
Information regarding atomic bomb
Evidence based off one person’s testimony
Rosenbergs claim innocence
Decision: guilty & sentenced to death

6. The Rosenbergs: Guilty or Not?

7. McCarthyism Wisconsin Senator Public believes McCarthy
Claims Communists in the government
Public believes McCarthy
McCarthyism: accusing Communists in US
Extreme, reckless charges
Create lies

8. Fall of McCarthyism McCarthy claims US Army full of Communists
Televised hearings
McCarthy bullies witnesses
Horrifying conditions
End of Korean War & McCarthyism
Downfall of Red Scare