THE COLD WAR AT HOME Fear of the Reds. Loyalty Review Board 1947 by Truman Federal Employee Loyalty...

THE COLD WAR AT HOME

Fear of the Reds

Loyalty Review Board• 1947 by Truman

• Federal Employee Loyalty Program & Loyalty Review Board

• Dismiss disloyal employees

• 1947-1951 investigated 3.2 million people

House of Un-American Activities (HUAC)

Investigate Communist Influence 1947

Investigated movie industry Sneaking propaganda in movies

Hollywood Ten• 10 men

• Refused to testify

• Believed hearings were unconstitutional

• Sent to prison

Hollywood Blacklist

By Hollywood executives

List of people condemned for Communist background

500 actors, writer, producers, directors

Could no longer work

Careers ruined

Alger Hiss

• 1948

• Accused of spying for the Soviets

• Sent to prison for perjury

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg • 1950

• Implicated in Klaus Fuchs case

• Accused and convicted of espionage

• Sentenced to death

Joseph McCarthy• Sen. from

Wisconsin

• Communists were taking over the government

• Unsupported accusations

McCarthyism

Footage of McCarthyism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnUf30oefQw

He may be a Communist if…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWeZ5SKXvj8