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The second red scare:
a - passed quietly with little notice.
b - resulted in many people losing jobs or being blacklisted from some types of jobs with little or no evidence of wrongdoing.
c - nearly ended the career of a young Congressman, Richard Nixon.
d - brought honor and integrity to the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
PLZ help me OUT. Thank you!

2007-02-03 07:58:42 · 5 answers · asked by US Girl 2 in Arts & Humanities History

5 answers

B is correct

"In United States history, the Second Red Scare took place in the period of 1947-1957. The 'Second Red Scare' coincided with increased fears of espionage by Communists and heightened tension from Soviet oppression in Eastern Europe (beginning in 1946), the Berlin Blockade (1948–1949), Chinese Civil War (1949), and the Korean War (1950–1953). These fears spurred aggressive investigations and the red-baiting, blacklisting, jailing and deportation of people suspected of following Communist or other left-wing ideology.
Causes
During the late 1940s, several news events caught the public attention, including the trial and conviction of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg for espionage (specifically passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets), the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe, and the acquisition of an atomic bomb by the Soviet Union. These events influenced the opinions of many Americans regarding their own security, and connected the fear of a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union with a fear of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA). In testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, former CPUSA party members Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers testified that Soviet spies and Communist sympathizers had been successful in penetrating several U.S. government agencies during and after World War II.
The testimony of Bentley and Chambers was cited as evidence of active Soviet and Communist infiltration of the United States government. Anti-communists also criticized the history of the Soviet Union and China as evidence of Communism's destructiveness, asserting that Stalin's purges, the creation of the gulag system and other examples of oppression were a function of the Communist ideology.
History
Thanks in part to the privation of the Great Depression, Communism was an attractive ideology to many in the U.S., especially among intellectual and labor circles. At the height of American Communism's popularity in 1939, the party had 50,000 U.S. members.[7] After the beginning of the war in Europe, Congress passed the Smith Act in 1940, which made membership in any organization advocating the violent overthrow of the government of the United States illegal and required all foreign nationals to register with the federal government. The Act was aimed not only at Communists, but also at members of the German-American Bund and the general Japanese-American population. After Germany invaded the USSR, the CPUSA shifted from an anti- to a pro-war position. During the war, while the USSR and America were allies, the Communist Party opposed labor strikes as detrimental to the war effort and supported an aggressive U.S. military policy. Under the slogan "Communism is Twentieth Century Americanism" CPUSA Chairman Earl Browder advertised that the party had been integrated into the mainstream of US politics. [citation needed] In contrast, the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party opposed World War II and supported strikes even in war industries. [citation needed] SWP leaders including Joseph Cannon were convicted under the Smith Act, with the approval of the CPUSA, whose members were not prosecuted.
In 1947, Harry S Truman signed Executive Order 9835, creating the Federal Employees Loyalty Program. The program created review boards to investigate federal employees and terminate them if there were doubts as to their loyalty. The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) and the committees of Senator Joseph McCarthy began investigations of actual or alleged American Communists and their role in espionage, propaganda, and subversive activities, real and imagined.
There were also effects on America's way of life as a result of the Red Scare and the nuclear arms race, which contributed to the popularization of fallout shelters in home construction and regular duck and cover drills at schools. The Red Scare is also cited as one factor that contributed to the rise and popularity of science fiction films during the 1950s and beyond. Many thrillers and science fiction movies of the period used a theme of a sinister, inhuman enemy that was planning to infiltrate society and destroy the American way of life. Even a sports team was affected by the red scare. The Cincinnati Reds changed their team name to the "Redlegs" to avoid the association of "Reds" and Communism."

2007-02-03 08:07:56 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 2 0

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2016-09-28 09:18:01 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

a I think

2007-02-03 08:07:11 · answer #3 · answered by katlvr125 7 · 0 0

B or D.

2007-02-03 08:53:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

B

2007-02-03 08:01:56 · answer #5 · answered by CyberCop 4 · 0 0

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