1. Compromise: Right to Remain Silent
1950s Reaction to Fear

2. Reflection & Connection
What were the fears in the 1920s?
What was the effect of those fears?
New Context: 1950s: Listen to the description of life in the 1950s (Reading from Ch. 25 Preface AH p. 786)
Context Reading: How was the atmosphere in America increasingly reflective of tensions overseas in the 1950s?
Reflection & Connection

3. What was the difference between the First Red Scare and the Second?
Role of Congress
Role of FBI
Role of the media
What was the difference between the First Red Scare and the Second?

4. The Threat Had Credence
Stalin’s Spies
Government sympathizers
Growth of US Communist Party in ’20s and ‘30s
The Threat Had Credence

5. But Fear Led to Overreaction
HUAC
Senate Committee
Incentive to name names
Remaining silent seemed to imply guilt
But Fear Led to Overreaction

6. Government Reaction: Propaganda
How to spot a Communist
Note the vague evidence to
“recognize a communist”
Government Reaction: Propaganda

7. Beneficiaries of Hysteria
Richard Nixon
Joseph McCarthy
Whittaker Chambers
Author Mickey Spillane
Describe how and why the figure benefitted from the fear of communism.
Beneficiaries of Hysteria

8. Victims of Hysteria Arthur Miller Hollywood Ten J. Robert Oppenheimer
How was each of these a victim? Was the government/Congress justified in targeting the individual or group? Explain.
Victims of Hysteria