Fluoride in the Water?: The Second Red ScareI. Introduction: Los Angeles, late 1940s - God and the Cold War?a. Billy Grahamb. Communism masterminded by SatanII. The Second Red Scare as Overreactiona. How bad were the Soviets? How much of a threat werethey?b. The Soviet Union and Communism – “a threat TO the United States, but not a threat IN the United States”III. The Second Red Scare as a War on Liberalisma. Anticommunism and conservative critics of FDR and the New Dealb. “New Dealers,” unions, academics, activists as targetsVI. Political Manifestations of the Scarea. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) -1945-52i. Set up to investigate un-American activitiesii. Government runb. The Alger Hiss spy case – 1948-50i. Whitaker Chambers accused Hiss of being a communistii. Richard Nixon involvediii. Hiss prosecuted for purgeryc. The Rosenberg Case - 1950-3i. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg accused of selling atomic bomb secrets to the sovietsii. SOME evidence found against themiii. Sentenced to the death penaltyd. “McCarthyism” - 1950-4i. Senator “Tailgunner Joe” McCarthy – ambitious, unethicalii. Searching for a “hot issue” = communismiii. The infamous McCarthy “lists” and the McCarthy Hearingsiv. The Army-McCarthy hearings and the end of McCarthyism1. the key role of TVIV. The Second Red Scare in Popular Culturea. HUAC and the “Hollywood Ten”i. The infamous “blacklist”b. The Sanitizing of Films and TVi. No morally complex or ambiguous subjectsii. No conflict iii. No criticism of “the American Way of Life”iv. No “sympathetic” Communist charactersc. The Scare and the “white bread” mainstream middle-class culture of the 1950si. Father Knows Bestii. Leave it to
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