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Red Scare of the 1950s and J. Edgar Hoover |
Edgar Hoover was an FBI who investigated and harrassed alleged radicals(those who said anything against U.S. policy) |
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Hollywood Ten |
A group of film directors who refused to answer any questions that |
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Arthur Miller's the Crucible |
Miller's play about the Salem with Trials as a metaphor for HUAC and the whole Joseph McCarthy era. |
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Alger Hiss |
An American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy and was charged by HUAC. |
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McCarran Internal Security Act |
It required all communist organizations to register with the government and publish their records. |
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Sen. Joseph McCarthy |
He was a Republican Senator of Wisconsin who publicly claimed that he had a list of 200 communist agents in the U.S. State Department |
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Rosenbergs |
Registered communists living in New York who were accused of passing information to the Soviets. |
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1954 Mc-Carthy Hearings |
A public hearing to investigate the charges yet McCarthy was exposed as a fraud. |
