McCarthyism

Warm-up

•What was the Red Scare?

Announcements

• Quiz Today• I will review with you guys for about 20

minutes

Quiz Review

• Communism vs. Democracy• Why did the Cold War start?• What are NATO, deterrent, Truman Doctrine,

Berlin Airlift, Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay or Pigs, and the Marshall Plan, Korean War.

Quiz Time

• No Talking• No cheating

Vocabulary

• Red Scare- period in American history where there was great fear of communism in the United States. There were two Red Scares, the first from 1918-1921 and the second from 1947-1957.

Dot Game• Each of you will be given an index card. Some

of the index cards will have red stickers on them. Some will not have anything on them.

• Your job is to question your classmates to figure out who has the red dots.

• You cannot show your card to anyone. • The goal of the game is the create the largest

group of people without a red dot. • Questions?

Dot Game Debrief

• How did it feel to be questioned?• Was it easy or hard to convince your classmates

that you did not have a red dot? Why or why not?

• What did you rely on to decide who had a red dot and who did not have a red dot?

• Do you think this game was a fair way to find the people with the red dots? Why or Why not?

Notes• We are going to do our notes a little differently

today.• The five terms below are what you need to have

information on. • On one side of your paper write the first term and

skip 5 lines, then write the next one and keep doing this until you have written all the terms.

• Red Scare• HUAC• Joseph McCarthy• Rosenberg Trial • Civil Liberties

Why did we have a Second Red Scare?

• As the cold war started there was fear of Soviet spies in the United States.

• In addition, the Soviets created their own atomic bomb in 1949.

• Americans were afraid that their national security was at risk.

Red Scare

• During this time many in film, radio and movies were blacklisted.

• This means that they were put on a list of people not to hire because they were thought to be communists.

HUAC and McCarthy

• The House Un-American Activities Committee was founded in 1938 to investigate disloyalty and harmful foreign influences in the U.S. but was used extensively after 1947 to find communists.

• HUAC launched a series of widely publicized hearings targeting Hollywood.

• In 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy began a campaign to expose Communists all over the U.S.

Senator Joseph McCarthy

HUAC and McCarthy continued

• McCarthy created a list of high level U.S. operative who he believed to be Communists.

• The public was outraged and investigations started. Anyone who challenged McCarthy was looked at as being a Communist or sympathizing with Communists.

• He attacked dozens of innocent people.• He was only stopped when he accused the

military of housing Communists

Rosenberg Trial

• Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were American communists who were convicted of sending American Nuclear secrets to the Soviets

• They were both executed.• This caused a huge stir in America because

may believed they were unfairly punished because of the hysteria of the Red Scare

The Rosenbergs

What Civil liberties did the Red Scare limit?

• Freedom from discrimination• Freedom of speech and thought• Freedom of association

Red Scare Political Cartoons

• We are going to look at a few political cartoons to get a better idea of the Red Scare.

• You will draw 4 t-charts on your paper that look like the one below.

• What I see What it means

Cartoon 1

Cartoon 2

Cartoon 3

Exit Slip• Write a 1 paragraph newspaper article or draw

a political cartoon about how the Red Scare limited the civil liberties of Americans.

• If you draw a cartoon write a 1 sentence description of the cartoon underneath.