1. Unit 5 sec.2 Life in the Fifties

2. Fear of Communism Leads to the Red Scare, Propaganda and Accusations Against Americans

3. Loyalty Oaths and Subversion
March 1947 Truman sets up the Federal Employee Loyalty Program
loyalty board investigations
3.2 million employees investigated
212 dismissed as security risks
2,900 quit because they felt the investigation violated their constitutional rights

4. House Un-American Activities Committee
1947 HUAC began investigating the movie industry
People were accused of making pro Communist films
Hollywood Ten refused to testify and put in jail
Hollywood 10
Executives created a blacklist with 500 actors, producers, writers and directors

6. Fears Instilled in Children
Bomb Shelter Construction
About 100,000 backyard bomb shelters existed in U.S.
Air Raid warnings
A-bomb drills after 1949
H-bomb drills after 1953
Duck and Cover

9. Rosenbergs Spy on U.S.
1949 the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb ahead of US predictions
1950 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg accused of passing secrets about our atomic bomb
They denied the charges
1953 they were executed

10. McCarthy begins witch hunt
An ineffective senator from WI he was sure to not win re-election in 1952
Exploits publics’ fear of communism by making unsubstantiated claims against people
I have in my hand the names of 205 Communists in the State Department
In 1954 the made accusations against the US Army resulting in a televised Senate investigation
His bullying tactics brought about his downfall

11. What did the Cold War look like from the Soviet perspective
What did the Cold War look like from the Soviet perspective? What were they afraid of?
Red Dawn