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The House Un-American Activities Committee

•Created in 1938•Goal: to investigate disloyal citizens or organizations of communist ties•Reorganized from previous incarnations as FISH COMMITTEE and McCormack DICKSTEIN COMMITTEE with new chairman Martin Dies

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HUAC investigates KKK

Originally HUAC

investigated left and

right wing political

groups

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Many called to investigate KKK but leader of HUAC, Martin Dies, said it was unnecessary because he was a supporter of the Klan

OPERATION

ABOLITION- movie

When communism was a HUGE fear in the US almost everything was under suspicion, including MOVIES

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HOLLYWOOD UNDER SUSPICION OF HUAC

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US and Soviets involved in SPACE RACE beginning in 1957

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Soviets launched “SPUTNIK”,

shuttle into space

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Alger Hiss was born on November 11, 1904

-He went to Harvard Law School, where he met Felix Frankfurter

-Hiss helped plan for peace as World War II was ending, Hiss was also in charge of setting up the UN

U.N. Charter

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-In 1945 Hiss was asked to fly the new U.N. Charter back to Washington

• In 1948 Hiss was first charged of being a secret communist by Whittaker Chambers

• Hiss denied it, but Chambers showed that Hiss gave Chambers documents for transmission to the Soviet Union

• The trial ended and Hiss was sentenced to 44 months in jailHiss said about jail that it had been a learning experience

• Hiss found 40,000 pages of FBI documents that had evidence that he was innocent and asked that the verdict be overturned

• It was turned down by the courts, but he was readmitted to the Mass. bar in 1977

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• The Rosenbergs were arrested in 1950 and could not post the $100,00 bond so they remained in the New York House of Detention.

• The jury was made up of non-Jewish accountants and auditors.

• Ethel denied the allegations against her but she was very composed, almost cold, and gave the false impression that she was in charge of the spy ring.

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• The jury found the Rosenbergs guilty on all charges and scheduled sentencing for April 15, 1951.

• The judge sentenced them to death on the electric chair in the week of May 21st

• The Rosenberg Ring received much worse punishments than the British spies

• People around the world were protesting the verdict

• They were executed on June 19th, in the electric chair

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The Rosenbergs left two children who were adopted

by the Meerpols and both

became college teachers, and maintained the

innocence of their parents

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Joseph McCarthyA senator from Wisconsin and who started McCarthyism.McCarthyism was when he would randomly interrogate people who he thought we communistsHe thought that there were a lot of communists in America click on his face in the bottom right to hear his hearing

McCarthyism

Named after Senator Joseph McCarthy it was a campaign on finding communists in America 1950- 4

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He ruined so many peoples Lives and took away their

Passports and I.Ds

Edward MurrowA young reporter who was

finding a lot about Joseph McCarthy and helped take him down and out of power

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Edward MurrowHe worked for CBS

He had a lot of different stories in his life but the senator McCarthy story was the biggest in his life.

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Click thereHe helped a lotOf people by taking

Senator McCarthy out of powerHe died in 1965

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McCarthyism HUAC SPYING

What year was the HUAC created?

Why was HUAC created in the first place?

What fears did space race bring to US?

Who was McCarthyism named after?

Where did Edward Murrow work?

What was

McCarthyism?

What crime did the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss commit?

Who accused Alger Hiss of committing the crime?

How were the Rosenbergs executed?

1938

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•To investigate disloyal citizens or organizations of communists ties

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•Enemy satellite streaking over US air during the war

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•They were accused of spying on the US for Russia

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•WHITTAKER CHAMBERS

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•ELECTRIC CHAIR

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•JOSEPH McCARTHY

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• Joseph McCarthy WOULD RANDOMLY INTERROGATE PEOPLE HE THOUGHT WERE COMMUNISTS

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