Chapter 27 Section 4

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subversion

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means sabotage

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Red Scare

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this dominated the nations politics for years and led to a massive hunt to uncover Communists.

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McCarran Act

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this required all Communist organizations to register with the government and provide lists of members.

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House Un-American Activities Committee

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this began investigating communist subversion in the nation.

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blacklists

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lists of individuals whose loyalty was suspicious that barred people from working in Hollywood's film industry.

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Whittaker Chambers

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is a magazine editor who volunteered to testify before HUAC.

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Alger Hiss

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is a former State department official, of giving him secret government documents in 1937 and 1938 to pass on to the Soviets.

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perjury

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lying, and sent to prison.

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

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a New York couple who were members of the Communist party were accused of plotting to pass secret information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.

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Joesph McCarthy

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when the hunt for communists in America was dominated by this senator of Wisconsin.

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alleged

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declared without proof, to be communists.

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Richard Nixon

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this person and other Republican Candidates for congress successfully smeared their opponents with charges of being soft on communism.

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Joesph Welch

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is an attorney for the army, said to McCarthy: "until this moment senator, i think i never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.....Have you left no sense of decency?"

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censure

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or formally criticize