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Cold War: Containment & Red Scare
Cold War: Containment & Red Scare
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US History 1950's Cold War
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1
What impact did the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings have on Hollywood?
Many actors were denied passports and could not travel
Ronald Reagan was accused of being a Communist sympathizer
Actors were required to swear that they were not Communists
Producers blacklisted people who were suspected communists
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The tactic of damaging reputations with vague, unfounded charges became known as
McCarthyism
Truman Doctrine
Cold War
Red Scare
3
To which Cold War event does this cartoon refer?
Korean War
HUAC Hearings
Berlin Airlift
Cuban Missile Crisis
4
Which act required all Communist and “Communist-front”organizations to register with the US?
McCarthy
McCarran
Truman
Eisenhower
5
What happened to Alger Hiss?
Supervised development of the Hydrogen Bomb
Accused of espionage and convicted of perjury
Appointed to head HUAC
Assassinated by Soviet Spies
6
In 1953 Americans were shocked when the Soviet Union tested the
Sputnik
Iron Curtain
Hydrogen Bomb
ICBM
7
Which of the following was executed for selling atomic secrets to the USSR?
Alger Hiss
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Joseph McCarthy
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
8
How did America react to the launch of Sputnik in 1957?
Limit the amount of television that children watched
Improve in math and science education
Send more juvenile delinquents to jail
Discourage adolescents from reading science fiction
9
Which group did J. Edgar Hoover urge to hold hearings on communist subversives?
Senatorial Oversight Committee
Anti-Communist League
House Un-American Activities Committee
State Department
10
Which phrase did President Dwight D. Eisenhower use to describe his political beliefs?
Time for a Change
Middle of the Road
Dynamic Conservatism
A Fair Deal