HUAC

The HUAC stands for...

• The House Un-American Activities Committee
• The House Under American Counsel
• The House Un-Republic Activities Committee
• The House Under American Communism

Which American state department official was accused of being a communist and taken to trial?

• Jake Spero

• Alger Hiss

• Mikhael Gorbachev

• Jarret Hurd

President Truman had FBI screen federal employees to see if they had any communist ties. As a result 3,000 employees were either fired or resigned. What was this called

• McCarran Act

• Loyalty Review Board

• John Birch Society

• Palmer Raids

Anyone who says they're a communist or suspected of being a communist were put on a list and never given a job in the industry again. Effectively ruined their careers even if just suspected of being a communist

• Whitelisted

• Blacklisted

• Redlisted

• Bluelisted

This group of "Hollywood" producers and executives went to jail for their stance against McCarthyism

• Ronald Reagan & Freinds
• The Red Menaces
• Soviets
• Hollywood 10

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

McCarthyism was what?

• a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
• an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
• a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
• The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.

Senator McCarthy's popularity went down because he began to target...

• the House of Representatives
• the poor
• the US Army
• women and children

What caused McCarthyism?

• President Truman making atomic bombs.
• Japanese spies.
• Bombing China.
• Increased fear of communism.