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HUAC
investigate alleged disloyalty and rebel activities on the part of private citizens, public employees and organizations suspected of having Communist ties. -
Smith Act (1940)
U.S. federal law passed in 1940 that made it a criminal offense to advocate the violent overthrow of the government or to organize or be a member of any group or society devoted to such advocacy -
Henry Wallace
was an American politician, journalist, and farmer who served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, the 33rd vice president of the United States, and the 10th U.S. Secretary of Commerce. -
Thomas Dewey
was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician. He served as the 47th governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. In 1944, he was the Republican Party's nominee for president. -
Servicemen's Readjustment act
was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans. The original G.I. Bill expired in 1956, but the term "G.I. Bill" is still used to refer to programs created to assist U.S. military veterans. -
Fair Deal.
was an ambitious set of proposals put forward by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to Congress in his January 1949 State of the Union address. More generally the term characterizes the entire domestic agenda of the Truman administration -
Harry Truman
was the 33rd president of the United States from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as vice president. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe, and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO. -
Employment Act of 1946
Its main purpose was to lay the responsibility of economic stability of inflation and unemployment onto the federal government. -
Council of Economic Advisers
is a United States agency within the Executive Office of the President established in 1946, which advises the President of the United States on economic policy. -
Committee on Civil rights.
The committee was created by Executive Order 9808 on December 5, 1946 and instructed to investigate the status of civil rights in the country and propose measures to strengthen and protect them. -
Taft-Hartley Act
is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions. -
Loyalty review board
The United States created this to root out all communism in the U.S -
22nd Amendment
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. -
Dixiecrats
any of the Southern Democrats who seceded from the party in 1948 in opposition to its policy of extending civil rights. -
Whittaker Chambers
was an American writer-editor and former Communist spy who in 1948 testified about Communist espionage, thereafter earning respect from the American Conservative movement. -
Progressive Party
The United States Progressive Party of 1948 was a left-wing political party that served as a vehicle for former Vice President Henry A. ... The party also sought conciliation with the Soviet Union during the early stages of the Cold War -
J. Strom Thurmond
was an American politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator from South Carolina. He ran for president in 1948 as the Dixiecrat candidate on a States Rights platform supporting racial segregation. -
Racial integration of Military.
Executive Order 9981 is an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman. It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces. -
Hollywood Blacklists
The Hollywood blacklist was the colloquial term for what was in actuality a broader entertainment industry blacklist put in effect in the mid-20th century in the United States during the early years of the Cold War. -
Alger Hiss
Was convicted of spying for the soviet union and was sentenced to perjury -
Joseph Mccarthy
was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. -
Mccarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. The term refers to U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy and has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, -
McCarran internal security act.
An Act to protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive activities by requiring registration of Communist organizations, and for other purposes. -
Dennis et al. v. United Sates
Was a court case relating to Eugene Dennis, General secretary of the communist party. -
Rosenberg Case
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union. -
Levittown
Levittown was created as the "first" suburban area for people to live in.