House of Cards

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House of Cards

• Rules of the Game
• Your task is to build a house of cards.
• Every person in the group must participate
  actively.
• There is an internal traitor in your
• group who will sabotage your
• efforts. (I selected this person
• before class.)
• You have 7 minutes to build the
• tallest house.
• Work well together and you could win!

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The Traitors

• Who did you accuse of being traitors and why?
• Were these accusations fair?
• What rights might have been violated?
• Explain how this game relates to the concept of
  paranoia.
• What might people be paranoid about during the
  Cold War?

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LEARNING TARGETS

1. Analyze and evaluate government actions towards
   American citizens during the Cold War
2. Compare and evaluate government actions during
   the Cold War to post 9/11

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THE RED SCARE

• THE COLD WAR AT HOME

PARANOIA
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SECOND RED SCARE

• Late 1940s-early 1950s
• Concern that communism would spread to the U.S.,
  fear of spies
• Feeling of paranoia reflected in popular culture
  

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WHITE BOARD MOMENT!!!

• Why were people scared?
• Predict how the government will respond to the
  paranoia and fear surrounding the Red Scare.

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THINK, PAIR, SHARE

• In what positions or jobs might Americans not
  want communists? Why?

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HUAC

• House Un-American Activities Committee
• investigated suspected Communists in movie
  industry
• no proof, but many blacklisted (Hollywood 10
  jailed)

Are you now or have you ever been a
Communist? -- HUAC investigator
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WHITE BOARD MOMENT!!!!

• If you were accused of being a Communist, would
  you have testified before HUAC or refused to?
• BRIEFLY explain why.

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THINK, PAIR, SHARE

• Examine and analyze the action of HUAC.
• Why might some criticize them?
• Why might some support them?
• VOTE
• Continue HUAC investigations or not!

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McCARTHYISM

• Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin
• Had little or no proof, contributed to mass
  hysteria
• Unfairly accused people of being communists
• Ended in 1954 after the Army-McCarthy hearings

McCarthys Claims Wheeling, West Virginia
205 Denver 207 Salt Lake City 57
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WHITE BOARD MOMENT!!!!!

• Could something like McCarthyism happen again?
• What might people be accused of today?

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PATRIOT ACT

• passed in response to 9/11
• expands govts ability to perform searches

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WHITE BOARD MOMENT!!!!!!

• Does the government have the right to investigate
  its citizens? Under what circumstances?

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EXIT SLIP

• Describe how Red Scare paranoia affected
  Americans during the Cold War.

• Should the United States be allowed to
• create a lists of American citizens who are
  communist?
• lists of suspected terrorists without proof?
• hold possible terrorists without proof?