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The Cold War at Home
Section 16.4
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Cold War and Culture
• Fighting in Korea• “lost” of China• “Space Race”• Threat of nuclear
weapons• Spread of Communism
into Eastern Europe, China, North Korea, Cuba
• Add it all up = US vs. Them
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Another Red Scare?• FEDERAL EMPLOYEE
LOYALTY PROGRAM (March 1947) – Permitted the FBI (and
other agencies) to screen federal employees for political disloyalty
– Attorney General made lists of “totalitarian, fascist, or subversive organizations”
– 3,000 people fired or laid off from the gov’t
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The Smith Act
• Made it illegal to teach the violent overthrow of the US gov’t–11 found guilty in
NY and imprisoned–Crippled the
Communist Party
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House Un-American Activities Commission (HUAC) - 1938
• Created in WWII to find Nazis, re-tasked to find communists in the Red Scare
• Investigated gov’t, military, unions, schools, media, science
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The Hollywood 10• HUAC accuses 10 in
Hollywood of being communists
• They claim 5th Amendment rights – you are not able to say something that will incriminate yourself
• Prison and Blacklisting
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Watkins vs. United States (1957)
• Supreme Court decided witnesses before HUAC could not be forced to name radicals they knew
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The Case of Oppenheimer
• Manhattan Project Planner• Head of the U.S. Atomic
Energy Commission• But…his wife and brother
were members of the communist party
• He was denied access to classified information – No evidence
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Let the Spy Games Begin• Alger Hiss– Educated at Johns Hopkins
University – Important gov’t official• Worked on New Deal, helped
organize UN
– Accused by converted agent (Whittaker Chambers)• Hiss denied he knew Chambers
– Richard Nixon leads the case against him
– Convicted to 5 years in prison
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The Rosenbergs • Convicted for passing atomic secrets
to the Soviets during WWII– Contact was British physicist Klaus Fuchs
• Fuchs confessed that Harry Gold was the courier he passes his information to– Gold turned in David Greenglass
• Greenglass then confessed and turned in his sister and brother-in-law Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
• Some claimed they were scapegoats; others that they got what they deserved
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1947 & American Espionage
• 1947 - CIA and NSA (National Security Council) created to spy on the Soviets
• FBI created in 1935
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The Media’s Response
• Wave of Anti-Red movies and books released– Like “Is This Tomorrow”,
“Red Planet Mars”, “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”
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McCarthyism • February 1950 – Joseph
R. McCarthy from Wisconsin claimed he had a list of communist members of the gov’t– Hundreds imprisoned, 10-
12 thousand lost their jobs• Accuses those who
complain– Fear in the US– Ruthless in his tracking
down of “communists”
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McCarran Act of 1950
• Forced communist political groups to register with gov’t
• Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB) investigated membership– No foreign members– Citizens found could lose
citizenship• Allowed for detention of
dangerous, disloyal, or subversive persons
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The Army Hearings
• Using Korean War, McCarthy goes after the army for being “infiltrated”– Televised bullying
• Eisenhower angry• McCarthy censured• End of Korean War 1953
and McCarthy’s downfall in 1954 signaled the end of the Red Scare