KT1- McCarthy and the Red Scare
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- KT1- McCarthyism and the Red Scare
- The Red Scare
- McCarthy had a list of communist workers- the numbers changed
- fear was from 1945 onwards because of the Cold War
- Resulted in communist hunting
- Fear of communism and it spreading
- Hollywood 10- Suspected of being communist
- The Hiss Case
- Atomic Bomb increases USA fear
- Arrested for being communist
- Found guilty and his reputation was runined
- 1948 Alger Hiss- government advisor
- Citizens feared all the government was communist
- Rosenberg case
- Weak evidence but were sentenced to death
- July 1950- accused of selling how to make the bombs to the USSR
- They were killed in a electric chair
- Julius and Ethel worked on the Atomic Bomb
- Rise and fall of McCarthy
- 4. Communist hunts began
- 3. He claimed he had a list of communists working for the government
- 5. FALL- 1950 People began to question McCarthy
- 2. McCarthy saw this as a way to gain power and fame
- 6. He was called a fraud and a hoax
- 1. RISE- 1949 China became communist
- 7. Produced fake photos and letters- banned from public speaking
- The Red Scare
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