1947-1957
The HUAC (House of Un-American Activities Committee) came into play during the second Red Scare (1947-1957) and was a permanent committee created to further investigate people accused of being communists. McCarthyism is the making of unjustified accusations that have no evidence behind them, and the term was created because Joe McCarthy made a speech and allegedly had a “list of communist spies” who he had made up, and it sparked panic throughout the nation. THe HUAC would get reports of people who were said to be communists, the accusations coming from neighbors or even customers, and the accused “communists” were taken to court and tried. Many of them spent years in jail or even died, which only furthered the paranoia in America at the time. Ultimately, people realized that McCarthy was lying about the communist spies that he said were inside the government, and the pandemonium faded. |
U-2 Incident
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FBI, Hoover, Anti-Communism
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Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin
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America During the Cold War
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America During the Cold War
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