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Cold War America
Ch 13.3
Thursday, May 10, 2012
• Daily goal: Understand how the fear of Communism changed American Society.
Loyalty Review Program
• Fear of communist infiltration in the gov’t lead Truman to start a program to screen all federal employees.
House Un-American Activities Committee
• J. Edgar Hoover created HUAC to investigate suspected Communists in America.
Alger Hiss
• was investigated by HUAC and was the first major gov’t official found guilty of perjury and suspected a Communist.
• Confirmed American’s fears of Communist subversion in the gov’t.
The Rosenbergs
• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were accused of selling secrets of the Atomic bomb to the Soviets.
• The Rosenbergs were sentenced to death with little evidence and became an example of the anti-communist frenzy.
McCarthyism
• Senator Joseph McCarthy began a witch hunt and accused people in the gov’t of being Communists.
• His tactic of damaging reputations with vague and unfounded charges became know as McCarthyism.
Think About it…
• How do you think Americans felt when they learned the Soviet Union had develop their own Atomic Bomb?
Duck and Cover
• Students were taught to “Duck and cover” in the event of a Nuclear blast.
• The deadly radiation left over after a Nuclear blast was called fallout.
• Americans were taught to hide in Fallout Shelters to escape nuclear fallout.
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