1. Warm-Up Wed 4/26
PreAP: Take out your Flygirl project and put on top of your desk
Take out notebook paper
Title: The Red Scare

2. The Red Scare

3. McCarthyism Who was Joseph McCarthy?
Senator who pursued communists in the United States government

4. McCarthyism What did he claim?
"The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205 names that are members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.“
-Joseph McCarthy, February 1950

5. McCarthyism What were his tactics? Severe intimidation
Little to no proof
Reckless accusing
Guilt by association

6. HUAC What did HUAC stand for?
House of Un-American Activities Committee
Investigate Communist infiltration in Hollywood

7. HUAC What did it mean to “blacklist”?
To deny employment to any writer, director, actor, etc., whose name was on the “blacklist”

8.
McCarthyism Overview
“Have you no sense of decency, sir?”

9. VENONA Papers What was “Venona”?
U.S. intelligence agencies secretly decoding messages sent by the Soviet Union

10. Venona Papers What did it confirm?
Some U.S. government officials and civilians did in fact help the Soviet Union

11. Venona Papers Ethel and Julius Rosenburg:
1st civilian couple executed for espionage
Julius did indeed pass atomic secrets

12.
VENONA papers & Rosenburgs

13. How was McCarthyism able to become so popular?
Because of fear
of the atomic
bomb!

14.
The Red Nightmare Movie