1. ???! Spies ???!?!?!?!?
Fear of Communist- “Red Scare”

2. Communists everywhere?
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Questioned suspected “commies” under oath
Talk and point fingers or be ruined!
“Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist party?”
Hollywood 10 – blacklisted & jailed for 1 year

3. GUILTY! Jules and Ethel Rosenberg Alger Hiss
Americans who provided USSR with atomic secrets
executed for treason in 1953
Alger Hiss
State Dept official
imprisoned for espionage

4. Senator Joseph McCarthy- (1950s) recklessly accused many government officials and citizens of being communist.
McCarthyism- making false accusations based on rumor or guilt by association.
Hiss and Rosenberg convictions increased Red Scare fear.

5. Attacked and smeared the names of hundreds of government officials
McCarthy went too far and accused military of being communists
Eventually censured by Senate in 1954
Died in office (1957)

7. Cold War: Things get serious
Soviet Union
successfully explodes an atomic
bomb
1952 US tests 1st Hydrogen Bomb
*Much more powerful than the
Atomic Bombs dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
*Precision Missile Launch
(BOTH U.S. and Soviet Union hold capability to destroy each other)

8. HydrogenBomb New “H” bomb more powerful
Hiroshima bomb killed over 140,000 people = 13 kilotons. =.013 megatons
Hydrogen bomb has megatons.
All explosions WW II= 2 megatons = 20%  of 1 H bomb.
1961 USSR Tsar bomb detonated – 50+ megatons

9. US H-bomb test
Nagasaki

11. Nuclear Arms Race

12. M.A.D. – Mutually Assured Destruction

14. Who’s got nukes?

15. COLD WAR: HOMEFRONT
**A. Fear of Nuclear War. Americans were urged to build bomb shelters in their own basements.

16. Federal Civil Defense Administration (1950)
-Educate people how to survive Atomic blast
-Mobilize people in event of Atomic warfare
What was the purpose of the “Bert the Turtle” campaign?

17. School children practice “duck and cover” drills