Loyalty Review Board: Determined Americans loyalty

Investigated gov’t employees and fired disloyal ones

Investigated communist influence in movie industry

Gary Cooper

Hollywood Ten

Group of actors jailed on accusation of being communist

Whittaker Chambers

Alger Hiss

Jailed for espionage / perjury

Richard Nixon

Klaus Fuchs

Leaked secrets to soviets

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

Worse than murder!

Joseph McCarthy

“McCarthyism” Anti-Communist activist

McCarthyism: Tactic of accusing people of disloyalty without providing evidence.

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Fun Fact: Claimed he had a list of 205 names of commies...Never revealed one.

Margaret Chase Smith

Spoke out against McCarthy

39 states made advocating violent overthrow of the gov’t illegal