8.4 - Cold War Fears at Home

AMERICAN HISTORY STUDY GUIDE

8.4 – Cold War Fears at Home (417-422)

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Write the questions; number them per the study guide Highlight vocabulary (use all terms from the list that appear in the textbook)

Respond with a well supported paragraph (nearly always) Skip a line after each item.

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A. Cold War Tensions Rise at Home

OBJECTIVE: Describe the efforts of President Truman and the House Un-American Activities Committee to fight communism at home.

1. Explain the rise of the Second Red Scare.

2. Explain how the Truman administration responded to the fears of the Second Red Scare.

3. Recreate the chart & complete.

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HUAC HEARINGS
CAUSES	EVENTS	EFFECTS

4. Summarize the impact of the Red Scare on Americans’ rights.

1. Introduction

2. The Second Red Scare

1. (Second) Red Scare

2. Federal Employee Loyalty Program (1947)

3. FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation

4. Smith Act

5. McCarran Internal Security Act (1950) **

3. The House Un-American Activities Committee

6. House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

7. Hollywood Ten

8. Fifth Amendment

9. Blacklisted

10. Watkins v. United States (1957)

4. Red Scare Intensifies Cold War Fears

11. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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B. Domestic Spy Cases Increase Fears

OBJECTIVE: Explain how domestic spy cases intensified fears of communist influence in the US government.

5. Recreate the chart & complete.

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Case	Background of Case Against	Result of the Case	Significance of the Case
Alger Hiss
Ethel & Julius Rosenberg

1. Introduction

2. HUAC Investigates Alger Hiss

12. Alger Hiss

13. Whittaker Chambers

14. Richard Nixon

3. The Rosenbergs and the Venona Papers

15. Klaus Fuchs

16. Ethel & Julius Rosenberg

17. Venona Papers

ALGER HISS	WHITTAKER CHAMBERS	ETHEL & JULIUS ROSENBERG	RICHARD NIXON

C. McCarthyism

OBJECTIVE: Analyze the rise and fall of Senator Joseph McCarthy and the methods of McCarthyism.

6. Recreate the chart & complete.

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Rise of

McCarthy

Actions of McCarthy

Fall of

McCarthy

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1. Introduction

2. The Rise of Senator Joe McCarthy

18. Joseph R. McCarthy

19. State Department

3. The Methods of McCarthyism

20. McCarthyism

21. George Marshall

4. McCarthy Loses Support

22. Army-McCarthy Hearings

JOE McCARTHY	GEORGE MARSHALL