Cold War at Home Main Idea The Cold

Cold War at Home Main Idea: The Cold War made it difficult for Truman to continue economics of the New Deal & led to fears of Communist Subversion Republicans used this fear to revive party

Red Scare • Americans begin to fear that Soviets are infiltrating our government • Sept 1945 Igor Gouzenko - Defects to Canada, shares soviets goals to place spies in Canada and USA

Government Response • Loyalty Review Program Screen all Federal Employees • House Un-American Activity Committee (HUAC) Hold public hearings, out Communist & sympathizers Government actions only create more fear

Soviet Spies • Alger Hiss – Lawyer, government official • 1948 Whittaker Chambers (former Communist) accuses Hiss of being spy, Hiss convicted in 1950 of Perjury

Soviet Spies • 1949 USSR successfully tests Atomic bomb, amps up fear of spies • Julius & Ethel Rosenberg (1953) executed for selling Atomic secrets to Soviets • Most doubt Ethel involvement but Project Verona released in 1995 show Julius involvement • Verona – cracked Soviet code in 1946 • Hysteria over finding spies, almost all professions know require oath

Mc. Carthyism • Senator Joseph Mc. Carthy says has list of 205 Communist in government • Never produces list but fear is so real everyone believes • Becomes Chairman Subcommittee, creates witch hunt for communists

Army-Mc. Carthy Hearing • Mc. Carthy holds televised hearing questions if spies in the Army • Mc. Carthy comes of as a bully and liar • Hearing is the end of Mc. Carthyism, In 1954 Mc. Carthy is censured (formal disapproval) by congress • Dies disgraced and broke in 1957

Timeline of the Red Scare 1949: USSR A-Bomb China becomes Communist 1950’s Mc. Carthyism 1945: Yalta & Potsdam