Fluoride in the Water The Second Red Scare I II Introduction Los Angeles late 1940s God and the Cold War a Billy Graham b Communism masterminded by Satan The Second Red Scare as Overreaction a How bad were the Soviets How much of a threat were they 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 Liberalism a Anticommunism and conservative critics of FDR and the New Deal VI b New Dealers unions academics activists as targets Political Manifestations of the Scare a The House Un American Activities Committee HUAC 1945 52 i Set up to investigate un American activities ii Government run b The Alger Hiss spy case 1948 50 i Whitaker Chambers accused Hiss of being a communist ii Richard Nixon involved iii Hiss prosecuted for purgery c The Rosenberg Case 1950 3 i Julius and Ethel Rosenberg accused of selling atomic bomb secrets to the soviets ii SOME evidence found against them iii Sentenced to the death penalty d McCarthyism 1950 4 i Senator Tailgunner Joe McCarthy ambitious unethical ii Searching for a hot issue communism iii The infamous McCarthy lists and the McCarthy iv The Army McCarthy hearings and the end of Hearings McCarthyism IV 1 the key role of TV The Second Red Scare in Popular Culture a HUAC and the Hollywood Ten i The infamous blacklist b The Sanitizing of Films and TV i No morally complex or ambiguous subjects ii No conflict iii No criticism of the American Way of Life iv No sympathetic Communist characters c The Scare and the white bread mainstream middle class culture of the 1950s i Father Knows Best ii Leave it to Beaver
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