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McCarthyism and the Red Scare

McCarthyism and the Red Scare. Palmer Raids. In April 1919, authorities discovered a plot for mailing 36 bombs to prominent members of the U.S. political and economic establishment:

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McCarthyism and the Red Scare

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  1. McCarthyism and the Red Scare

  2. Palmer Raids • In April 1919, authorities discovered a plot for mailing 36 bombs to prominent members of the U.S. political and economic establishment: • On June 2, 1919, in eight cities, eight bombs simultaneously exploded at the same hour. Evidence indicated an Italian-American radical from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. • Afterwards, Palmer ordered the U.S. Justice Department to launch the Palmer Raids (1919–21)

  3. The Second Red Scare (1939–45) • Increased popular fear of communist espionage because of • Soviet Eastern Europe, • the Chinese Civil War, • the confessions of spying for the Soviet Union given by several high-ranking U.S. government officials, • the Korean War.

  4. McCarthyism • Thousands of Americans were accused of being Communists or communist sympathizers McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. • Many people suffered loss of employment, destruction of their careers, and even imprisonment. Most of these punishments came about through trial verdicts later overturned

  5. The Red Channels list Entertainment Industry • Disney appeared before HUAC. • Claimed that an cartoonists and animators' strike was due to "Communist agitation“ Hollywood Ten

  6. Alger Hiss • American lawyer, government official, author, and lecturer • Helped to establish the UN • Accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 • Found guilty of perjury and received two concurrent five-year sentences, of which he eventually served 44 months.

  7. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Julius Rosenberg was born to a family of Jewish immigrants in New York City on May 12, 1918 • Graduated as an Electrical engineer • Joined the Army Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey in 1940, • Fired in 1945 when the U.S. Army discovered his previous membership in the Communist Party. • Julius Rosenberg was originally recruited by the KGB on Labour Day 1942 • Julius provided thousands of classified (top secret) reports from Emerson Radio • The Rosenberg's were convicted on March 29, 1951, and on April 5 were sentenced to death by Judge Irving Kaufman • The couple was executed at sundown in the electric chair on June 19, 1953

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