1. Ordered Sharing
“FEAR is an acronym in the English language for "False Evidence Appearing Real"”  -- Neale Donald Walsch
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”  -- Ambrose Redmoon
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”  -- Marie Curie
“Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.”  Marilyn Ferguson
“Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.”  Elbert Hubbard

2. Unit 9
The Cold War At Home

3. The Red Scare
The country took an international policy of being anti-communist.
80,000 Americans were Communist.
Truman sets up a Loyalty Review Board.
What is disloyal?
Congress creates the HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activities)

4. HUAC
This congressional committee claimed that Hollywood studios were trying to spread communist propaganda.
HUAC tried to force these actors, writers, directors, , to give up names of people involved with the Communist party.
In turn Hollywood executives created a blacklist, and many actors were never allowed to work in Hollywood again.
McCarran Act – made it unlawful to plan any action that might lead to the establishment of a totalitarian government.
Truman vetoed this bill – “In a free country, we punish men for the crimes they commit, but never for the opinions they hold.”
Congress overrode Truman’s veto

5. Espionage Alger Hiss – passed American documents to the Soviet Union.
Klaus Fuchs admitted to giving Soviet Union scientific information on the Atomic Bomb. He named Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
Ethel and Julius were put on trial and put to death for espionage.
Rosenberg’s

6. Joseph McCarthy
McCarthy gained fame by “exposing” communists within America. It becomes known as the McCarthy Witch Hunt.
McCarthy Speech Against
Communism
No Decency?