APUSH Second Red Scare DBQ Outside Sources

Executive Order 9835 (1947)

• ensured all federal employees underwent loyalty tests and fired those who didn’t, targeted toward gay employees who were considered susceptible

• established Loyalty Review Board

HUAC/Hollywood Ten (1940s-50s)

• HUAC investigated people for their beliefs (Nazi and communist)

• disregarded due process

• Hollywood Ten were people who refused to comment on the Hollywood communist hearings for going against the First Amendment

• Charged with dissent of Congress

McCarran-Walter Act (1952)

• allowed the government to deport communist immigrants, regardless of citizenship status

• took containment to a new level

Alger Hiss (1948)

• accused of passing documents to Whitaker Chambers by Chambers

• not found guilty of communism but of perjury

• showed people’s willingness to hope on the bandwagon against someone

fear of individuality and artistic expression (1940s-50s)

• artists like Jackson Pollock and John Cage deemed un-American for their unique pieces, despite CIA support of artistic endeavors to prove American allowing individualism

Rosenbergs’ Trial (1951)

• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg accused of communism and passing the secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union

• reported by Ethel’s brother, idea of passing blame

• Ethel actually did nothing

blacklisting of Hollywood Ten (1940s-50s)

• Hollywood Ten lost job opportunities and money because they lost jobs for their association with communism

Taft-Hartley Act (1947)

• curbed labor unions because they were related to communism

• workers’ rights hurt because they couldn’t unionize, strike, or boycott as much

creation of new national security associations that spent more money

• CIA (1947)

• Department of Defense (1947)

• National Security Council (1947)