The US Plan to Stop Communism Domestic

Read the action reaction chart and answer: Communist 1-4 Capitalist 1-4

Create a chart like the one below in your notes and predict what the groups will encounter during the Cold War and/or 50s-60s Colleges Homosexuals Film Industry US Post Joe-1 US Army and McCarthy Urban vs Suburban

Read the bubbles and answer the questions Blue=US Red=Russia All charts are on Wikipage under act react charts

Executive Order 9835 Whereas each employee of the Government of the United States is endowed with a measure of trusteeship over the democratic processes which are the heart and sinew of the United States; and Whereas it is of vital importance that persons employed in the Federal service be of complete and unswerving loyalty to the United States; and Whereas, although the loyalty of by far the overwhelming majority of all Government employees is beyond question, the presence within the Government service of any disloyal or subversive person constitutes a threat to our democratic processes; and Whereas maximum protection must be afforded the United States against infiltration of disloyal persons into the ranks of its employees, and equal protection from unfounded accusations of disloyalty must be afforded the loyal employees of the Government: PART I—INVESTIGATION OF APPLICANTS There shall be a loyalty investigation of every person entering the civilian employment of any department or agency of the executive branch of the Federal Government. Investigations of persons entering the competitive service shall be conducted by the Civil Service Commission, except in such cases as are covered by a special agreement between the Commission and any given department or agency. Investigations of persons other than those entering the competitive service shall be conducted by the employing department or agency. Departments and agencies without investigative organizations shall utilize the investigative facilities of the Civil Service Commission.

Executive Order 9835: Allows FBI to investigate federal employees for security risk Local governments Colleges Businesses Workers must take an oath. UCLA fired 157 faculty members refusing to take the oath

Executive Order 10450 April 27, 1953 Any criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful conduct, habitual use of intoxicants to excess, drug addiction, sexual perversion Outcome: Target homosexuals

HUAC House Committee on un-American Activities Target: Writers and directors of Hollywood Hollywood 10: Ten Hollywood creators blacklisted Herbert Biberman and others refused to answer questions in Congress about their communist beliefs. Some sent to jail

Nuclear Monopoly Broken Bomb used as a deterrent until… August 1949=Joe 1 We have the bomb also!

Joe-1 August 29, 1949

Possible Jewish American Communists the Rosenbergs Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh6NKK8M2VQ

Senator McCarthy and McCarthyism 1950 Communists are in our US Army I have a list of 250 known communist who are still working in the State Department

Wait I mean 81

Wait I mean 57

We need to investigate the Army

McCarthy Hearings 1954 McCarthy vs. U.S. Army

Senate votes 67 to 22 to censure McCarthy McCarthy dies three years later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh6NKK8M2VQ

How accurate were your initial predictions? Colleges Homosexuals Film Industry US Post Joe-1 US Army and McCarthy Urban vs Suburban