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1 Republicans used this fear to revive party
Cold War at Home Main Idea: The Cold War made it difficult for Truman to continue economics of the New Deal & led to fears of Communist Subversion Republicans used this fear to revive party

2 Red Scare Americans begin to fear that Soviets are infiltrating our government Sept 1945 Igor Gouzenko - Defects to Canada, shares soviets goals to place spies in Canada and USA

3 Government Response Loyalty Review Program
Screen all Federal Employees House Un-American Activity Committee (HUAC) Hold public hearings, out Communist & sympathizers Government actions only create more fear

4 Soviet Spies Alger Hiss – Lawyer, government official
1948 Whittaker Chambers (former Communist) accuses Hiss of being spy, Hiss convicted in 1950 of Perjury

5 Soviet Spies 1949 USSR successfully tests Atomic bomb, amps up fear of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg (1953) executed for selling Atomic secrets to Soviets Most doubt Ethel involvement but Project Verona released in 1995 show Julius involvement Verona – cracked Soviet code in 1946 Hysteria over finding spies, almost all professions know require oath

6 McCarthyism Senator Joseph McCarthy says has list of 205 Communist in government Never produces list but fear is so real everyone believes Becomes Chairman Subcommittee, creates witch hunt for communists

7 Army-McCarthy Hearing
McCarthy holds televised hearing questions if spies in the Army McCarthy comes of as a bully and liar Hearing is the end of McCarthyism, In 1954 McCarthy is censured (formal disapproval) by congress Dies disgraced and broke in 1957

8 Timeline of the Red Scare
1949: USSR A-Bomb China becomes Communist 1950’s McCarthyism 1945: Yalta & Potsdam

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