1. Ch 12 Sec. 4
The Cold War at Home
EQ – How did fear of domestic Communism affect American society during the Cold War?

2. Worrying about Communists at Home
Smith Act
Illegal to teach or advocate for the violent over throw of government.
HUAC – House on Un-American Actives Committee
Hollywood Ten
Refused to answer questions
Cited for contempt - went to prison for a year
Blacklisted – could not get jobs

3. Hollywood Ten Alvah Bessie Herbert J. Biberman Lester Cole
Edward Dmytryk
Ring Lardner, Jr.
John Howard Lawson
Albert Maltz
Samuel Ornitz
Adrian Scott
Dalton Trumbo
Hollywood Ten

4. Spy Cases Worry Americans
Alger Hiss
Accused of espionage by Whittaker Chambers, a former spy.
Said Hiss gave him confidential gov’t docs.
He was tied for perjury – spent 5 years in prison
The Rosenberg's
Charged with “conspiring to pass secret information about nuclear science” to the USSR
Case was based largely off the word of a confessed spy.
Executed by electrocution in 1953

5. McCarthyism Senator from Wisconsin 1950
Accused State Department with being “Infused with communists”
List of 250 employees who were communists
Caused Second Red Scare
Set of a series of reckless and baseless accusations about “communist sympathizers”
Fell out f power in 1954 – went after the US Army.