Chapter 18 Section 3

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Chapter 18 Section 3

• The Cold War at Home

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Brainstorm?

• Have you ever been in a situation where you were
  presumed guilty until you proved your innocence?
• How did you feel?
• Did you learn anything from it?
• President Bush and phone wire taps?

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Objectives

• Describe government efforts to investigate the
  loyalty of U.S. citizens?
• Explain the spy cases of Alger Hiss Julius
  Ethel Rosenberg
• Describe the efforts of Senator Joseph McCarthy
  to investigate alleged Communist influence in the
  United States

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Fear of Communist Influence

• Satellite Nations/China/Soviet Bomb/Korea
• Loyalty pledges/teachers/wrestlers/etc
• During the depression WWII 100K Americans in
  the Communist Party
• Truman Federal Employee Loyalty Program
  investigate government employees and dismiss
  those who are disloyal (91 subversive
  organizations)

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Fear of Communist Influence

• 1947-1951 3.2M employees investigated/212
  dismissed/2900 resign
• The House Un-American Activities Committee
  Inside outside of U.S./movie industry/Hollywood
  Ten sent to prison
• Blacklists
• McCarran Internal Security Act unlawful to try
  to insert totalitarian in the U.S.

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Spy Cases Stun the Nation

• Alger Hiss State Dept official/Chambers a
  Communist spy accused Hiss/ Years passed to
  charge Hiss w/espionage/jailed for perjury
• Rosenbergs Fuchs handed Soviets bomb info and
  Rosenbergs implicated/ Jewish minor activists
  in Am. Commie Party
• Killed in the electric chair

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McCarthyism

• Republican Senator from Wisconsin/blame Democrats
• unsuccessful/needed an issue to reelect
• Accuse people w/o evidence
• 57,81,205 Communists in State Dept.
• Always on the Senate floor/slander
• 1954 accused a general Zwicker/protected by
  Joseph Welch