1. Lesson 4 Cold War Fears at Home
Postwar America ( )
Lesson 4 Cold War Fears at Home

2. Lesson 4 Cold War Fears at Home
Postwar America ( )
Lesson 4 Cold War Fears at Home
Learning Objectives
Describe the efforts of President Truman and the House Un-American Activities Committee to fight communism at home.
Explain how domestic spy cases intensified fears of communist influence in the U.S. government.
Analyze the rise and fall of Senator Joseph McCarthy and the methods of McCarthyism.
Red Scare
Smith Act
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Hollywood Ten
blacklist
Alger Hiss
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Venona Papers
Joseph R. McCarthy
McCarthyism

3. Brain Starter
What if the government told you there were spies in Brunswick that were trying to help terrorists, what would you do?
What should our country’s leaders be more focused on protecting – security of the nation or freedom of the nation’s people? Should this change? Should it remain the same? Why?

4. Question Summarize the story The Crucible Define McCarthyism
How is the drama The Crucible an allegory for McCarthyism?

5. Cold War Tensions Rise at Home
RED SCARE – 2nd Red Scare
Fear of the spread of communism
Popular Culture reflected Democracy v. Communism
Korean War, China “Lost”, Space Race, Atomic Bombs
East v. West
Loyalty Review Program
Government Screening Program
Screen Federal Employees for signs of disloyalty
14,000 received intensive scrutiny
2,000 quit their jobs
212 fired for “questionable Loyalty”
No Evidence was acquired against them
HOW TO RECOGNIZE A COMMUNIST
TED Talk McCarthyism

6. 2nd Red Scare The House Un-American Activities Committee
Smith Act
Law made it unlawful to teach or advocate the overthrow of the US Government.
The House Un-American Activities Committee
Called people in front of congress
Accused people of being communists.
Had to prove you weren’t a communist.
Propaganda in films
Thought pro soviet messages were in the films
Walt Disney/Ronald Reagan
Hollywood Ten
Did not testify, unconstitutional
Arrested for 1 year

7. HUAC & the Hollywood Ten
They did not cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee's investigation,
They refused to admit to being in the Communist Party
They wouldn’t provide any names of others who might be Communists
Punished!
The ten were fined and sentenced to a year in jail.
They were also blacklisted from working in the film industry in Hollywood, until the 1960's when the ban was lifted.

8. Cold War Tensions Rise at Home
Prefabricated underground bomb shelters like the one shown here grew in popularity as Americans became increasingly fearful of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.

9. Spy Cases Stun the Nation
Fear of Communism lead to Spy Cases
Alger Hiss
former Communist spy named Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of spying for the S.U.
Government official
Accused of supporting communism
Denied the charges
Hiss was charged with lying under oath and served years in prison
Klaus Fuchs
German born scientist, Manhattan project
Gave secrets to Soviet Union
Rosenberg's
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Accused of giving atomic secrets to soviets
Refused to answer questions
Sentenced to death
Electric Chair
In 1997, the Soviets released info verifying that Julies was a spy, but their was no proof that he turned over info related to the bomb

10. McCarthy Launches His “Witch Hunt”
Joseph McCarthy
US Senator
Running for re-election
Played American’s fear to gain reelection
False accusations
McCarthy’s Tactics
McCarthyism
Anti-Communist accusations
Unfounded accusations
Claimed list of hundreds that had USSR ties that worked in the State Department
False Claims
Movement is going to fade
Too many false claims/destroyed people’s character

11. Analyze Charts The major events of both Alger Hiss’s case and the Rosenberg case are listed in this chart. Why do you think the Rosenbergs were sentenced to death after their trial?

12. Nuclear Fears

13. Federal Civil Defense Administration
The Truman administration created the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) to help educate and prepare the public for nuclear emergencies
Citizens ready to handle a crisis
“back yard may be the next front line”

14. DUCK AND COVER