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The second Red Scare
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Truman orders investigation
1947 President Truman ordered investigation of government workers to determine loyalty. -
The Hollywood Ten
Ten people in the entertainment industry refused to answer questions of HUAC. They were later fired and were the first Blacklisted in second Red Scare. -
Committee for the First Amendment
Group of people from the entertainment industry that protested the harsh treatment. All were fire and never re hired. -
Communist Leaders Arrested
Were arrested for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government. These trials then became symbolic of the period. -
The Alger Hiss case
Alger Hiss had been part of the Roosevelt administration in the 1930s and a high-level State Deparmtnet official. During the testimony of Whittaker Chambers, Hiss was found to be part of an underground communist network during the same time. -
Senator Joseph McCarthy's speech.
The Wheeling speech was McCarthy's first involvement that gained him major publicity. He then produced 205 names of people of the Communist Party that were also under State employment. -
The Red Channels
A pamphlet named 151 people in the entertainment industry classified as communist or red-fascist sympathisers. They were all fired. -
The McCarran Internal Security Act
Was the first piece of legislation passed that could really defy the US Constitution and ban the right to assembly and the freedom of belief. -
The Rosebergs
It was claimed that they were giving information about The American nuclear weaponry to the Soviets. They were then convicted and sentenced and death. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
McCarhty questioned the political loyalty of the US Army. The trials marked the beginning of McCarthey's downfall and the period of national hysteria declined, but suspicion of communists was only removed at a national level at the end of the Cold War.
