The Cold War at Home

The Soviet Union believed in what political and economic system? (This system allows the government to control businesses and land.)

• Isolationalism
• Communism
• Capitalism
• Militarism

The House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

• Protested racial segregation in the armed forces.
• Investigated disloyalty and harmful foreign influences in the United States. 
• Investigated U.S. involvement in the Korean War and its lack of progress towards victory.
• Tried to deport all foreigners or Un-American peo

The couple that was executed for spying and allegedly passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union were the                  

• Hiss’s
• Greenglass’s
• Rosenberg’s
• Chamber’s

Group of motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who were mostly blacklisted for failing to cooperate with anti-communist investigations.

• Hollywood Ten 
• Joseph McCarthy
• Warsaw Pact
• Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

I the 1950's Senator Joseph McCarthy won national attention when he...

• Was convicted as a spy.
• Claimed hundreds of government employees were communists.
• Helped Eisenhower become president.
• Went to Korea and said atomic weapons should be used to break the stalemate.

Alger Hiss was convicted of which of the following?

• Perjury
• Espionage
• Contempt of Congress
• Treason

Joseph McCarthy lost his political influence and support after which event?

• The Rosenberg Trials
• The 205 government officials on his list were found innocent
• The Army-McCarthy Trials
• He accused Eisenhower of being a communist

The "Red Scare" means

• People were afraid of the color red.
• People thought Red's were friends. 
• People were afraid of Communists. 
• People were afraid of Democrats.