The Second Red Scare Chapter 25 Section 3

The Second Red Scare Chapter 25 Section 3 • Standard : 9. 6 - Recog nize domes the Cold Wa r on Americ tic impact of an society.

Morning Work 1 st Period 0 Write questions 1. What was the Berlin Crisis? 2. What was the policy of containment? October 24, 2016 Agenda 0 Morning Work (5) 0 Lecture: Second Red Scare (30) 0 Video: Duck and Cover 0 Bomb Shelter activity 0 Final Countdown

Morning Work 2 nd/3 rd Period 0 Write questions 1. What was the Berlin Crisis? 2. What was the policy of containment? October 24, 2016 Agenda 0 Morning Work (5) 0 Lecture: Second Red Scare (30) 0 Video: Duck and Cover 0 Bomb Shelter activity 0 Final Countdown

Life in America after World War II 0 Concerns of postwar America: 0 Demand for war goods dropped sharply 0 Nearly 12 million veterans needed jobs 0 Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (1944) 0 GI Bill 0 Included several features aimed at helping veterans make a smooth entry into civilian life.

GI Bill

Life in America after World War II 0 After the war, demand for consumer goods rose sharply. 0 More Americans began having families 0 Baby Boom 0 Two decades following World War II.

Life in America after World War II 0 Racial Minorities 0 Executive Order 9981 0 Passed in June 1948 0 Ended segregation in the U. S. armed forces

Growing Fear of Communism 0 Soviet Atomic Bomb 0 August 1949: U. S. aircraft picked up signs of radioactivity. 0 In September: Confirmed the USSR had detonated atomic bomb

Duck and Cover

Growing Fear of Communism 0 Communism in China 0 Nationalist government led by Chiang-Kai-shek fled to Taiwan 0 Communists led by Mao Zedong steadily gained power in China 0 People’s Republic of China

Chiang-Kai-shek

Taiwan

Mao’s China 0 1958: Great Leap Forward 0 1960’s: Cultural Revolution 0 Red Guards

Fighting the Spread of Communism at Home 0 Investigating Communism 0 House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) 0 Investigated possible threats of communism in the U. S. 0 Hollywood Ten 0 J. Robert Oppenheimer

Fighting the Spread of Communism at Home 0 Truman and Loyalty 0 Plan to have all federal employees investigated 0 Smith Act 0 1940 0 Made it a crime to call for the overthrow of the U. S. government or belong to an organization that did so. 0 Dennis v. United States

Fighting the Spread of Communism at Home 0 Mc. Carran Act 0 1950 0 Communist organizations had to register with the government 0 Established a special board to investigate Communist involvement 0 Truman vetoed 0 Congress overrode Truman’s veto

Fighting the Spread of Communism at Home 0 Spy Cases 0 Alger Hiss 0 Convicted for lying under oath 0 Klaus Fuchs 0 Gave atomic secrets to the Soviet Union 0 Sentenced to 14 years in prison though he served just 9 years. 0 Rosenbergs 0 Convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage 0 Received death sentenced and was executed in 1953

Spy Cases 0 Summer 1949: FBI finds report about progress of MP- written by Fuchs in 1944 0 Fuchs admitted giving info to USSR 0 “Raymond” was the contact he had passed the secret documents 0 “Raymond”= Harry Gold (chemist working in NY)- took info from solider at Los Alamos and delivered info to head Soviet spy operations in NY 0 Soldier’s name? But wife’s name was Ruth 0 David Greenglass (solider working in Los Alamos)- husband of Ruth Greenglass 0 Greenglass implicated his brother-in-law- Julius Rosenberg Greenglass to become a spy/given him instructions concerning mtg. with Gold 0 Rosenberg says Greenglass=liar

Spy Cases 0 Julius wife: Ethel Rosenberg- had 2 boys 0 Both communists 0 Julius was assigned be an engineering inspector of electrical equipment (fired b/c he concealed his previous membership in Communist Party) 0 Julius/Ethel arrested for conspiracy to commit espionage 0 Testimony was strong against Julius but not Ethel 0 Strongest testimony against Ethel was from brother/sister-in-law 0 Both stated saw Ethel typing up handwritten notes that David brought back from Los Alamos. 0 FBI promised David they would not prosecute his wife if he told all he knew 0 David lost $ in a business partnership with his brother/Julius- seeking revenge? Julius/Ethel pleaded 5 th Amendment 0 0 David Greenglass-15 years 0 Ethel/Julius- death

Major Spy Cases Alger Hiss Klaus Fuchs

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

Hiss Found Guilty

Senator Joseph Mc. Carthy 0 The Rise of Mc. Carthyism 0 Joseph Mc. Carthy accused government officials of being Communist 0 Nation’s top Communist fighter

Senator Joseph Mc. Carthy 0 Mc. Carthyism 0 Political cartoonist Herblock first used the term 0 Mc. Carthy’s tactics of spreading fear and making baseless accusations 0 Mc. Carthyism quickly spread throughout the US

Herblock Cartoons

Senator Joseph Mc. Carthy 0 Mc. Carthy’s Fall 0 0 Mc. Carthy became increasingly wild in his accusations Attacked the U. S. Army Senate hearings were televised Public increasingly came to view Mc. Carthy’s tactics as unfair.

Final Countdown

Morning Work April 9, 2013 0 WRITE QUESTIONS 1. What was the House Un-American Activities Committee? 2. Who became China’s new leader in 1949? 0 Morning Work 0 Lecture: Second Red Scare 0 Final Countdown 0 Lecture: Korean War 0 Truman and Korean War primary source