1. Republicans used this fear to revive party
Cold War at Home
Main Idea: The Cold War made it difficult for Truman to continue economics of the New Deal & led to fears of Communist Subversion
Republicans used this fear to revive party

2. Red Scare
Americans begin to fear that Soviets are infiltrating our government
Sept 1945 Igor Gouzenko - Defects to Canada, shares soviets goals to place spies in Canada and USA

3. Government Response Loyalty Review Program
Screen all Federal Employees
House Un-American Activity Committee (HUAC)
Hold public hearings, out Communist & sympathizers
Government actions only create more fear

4. Soviet Spies Alger Hiss – Lawyer, government official
1948 Whittaker Chambers (former Communist) accuses Hiss of being spy, Hiss convicted in 1950 of Perjury

5. Soviet Spies
1949 USSR successfully tests Atomic bomb, amps up fear of spies
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg (1953) executed for selling Atomic secrets to Soviets
Most doubt Ethel involvement but Project Verona released in 1995 show Julius involvement
Verona – cracked Soviet code in 1946
Hysteria over finding spies, almost all professions know require oath

6. McCarthyism
Senator Joseph McCarthy says has list of 205 Communist in government
Never produces list but fear is so real everyone believes
Becomes Chairman Subcommittee, creates witch hunt for communists

7. Army-McCarthy Hearing
McCarthy holds televised hearing questions if spies in the Army
McCarthy comes of as a bully and liar
Hearing is the end of McCarthyism, In 1954 McCarthy is censured (formal disapproval) by congress
Dies disgraced and broke in 1957

8. Timeline of the Red Scare
1949: USSR A-Bomb
China becomes
Communist
1950’s McCarthyism
1945: Yalta &
Potsdam