HIST 2112 1st edition Lecture 24 Outline of Previous Lecture I World War II Reasons II III Race Atomic Bomb Outline of Current Lecture I The Second Red Scare II Political Manifestation of the Scare III The Second Red Scare in Popular Culture Current Lecture I II III The Second Red Scare The Soviet Union and Communism are a threat to the United States but not a threat in the United States Anticommunism and conservative people criticize FDR and the New Deal The main people who supported the New Deal was unions academics and activists o These people were popular targets Political Manifestations of the Scare The House Un American Activities Committee HUAC The Alger Hiss spycase The Rosenberg Case McCarthyism o Senator McCarthy was ambitious and unethical o Was searching for a hot issue communism o The infamous McCarthy lists and the McCarthy Hearings o The Army McCarthy hearings and the end of McCarthyism The key role of TV The Second Red Scare in Popular Culture HUAC and the Hollywood Ten o The infamous blacklist The Sanitizing of Films and Tv o No morally complex or ambigupous subjects These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o No conflict o No criticism of the American War of Life o No sympathetic Communist characters The Scare and the whitebread mainstream middle class culture of the 1950s
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