2. The 2 nd Red Scare

3. Previous Socialist Scares Early Labor Union Movement (Haymarket Strike, Homestead Strike, Pullman RR Stirke) Imprisonments during WWI (Debs, Schenck, Haywood) Palmer Raids- Deporations 1920s Immigration Laws Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti

4. The Smith Act (1940) All non citizens had to register with the government. About 3 million immigrants Criminal to advocate the overthrow of the American government Socialists Beware!

5. House of Un- American Activities Committee (HUAC)

6. Alger Hiss Trial

7. The McCarran Act (1950) Also Known as “The Internal Security Act” Members of the American Communist Party had to register with the government Established Subversive Activities Control Board

8. Results of Soviet Atomic Progress Atomic Anxieties: Duck-and- Cover Generation  “” Atomic Testing: à 1946-1962  U. S. exploded 217 nuclear weapons over the Pacific and in Nevada.

9. The Execution of the Rosenbergs- 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Similar to Sacco and vanzetti

10. Televised Senate Hearings

11. McCarthyism Friend to DemocracyFoe to Democracy

12. The Censure of McCarthy

13. Red Scare Supreme Court Cases Dennis v. US (1950)- Smith Act is OK- Similar to Schenck Watkins v US (1957)- Congress has limits to how they investigate Americans Yates v. US (1958) – overturned Dennis

14. Russian Progress Scares Americans- The Space Race 1957  Russians launch SPUTNIK I 1958  National Defense Education Act More Math and Science classes in High School

15. How does fear impact freedom?