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    Growing fears of communism in the late 1940s led to a breakdown in relations between the US and USSR. The US established programs like the Federal Employee Loyalty Programme to investigate and fire suspected communists from government roles. Senator Joe McCarthy further exacerbated tensions in the 1950s with unfounded claims of communist infiltration in the US government and bullying tactics against witnesses, in what became known as McCarthyism. This period saw widespread hysteria that ruined lives and careers until public opinion turned against McCarthy when his hearings were televised and he could not produce evidence to support his extreme claims.

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    Growing fears of communism in the late 1940s led to a breakdown in relations between the US and USSR. The US established programs like the Federal Employee Loyalty Programme to investigate and fire suspected communists from government roles. Senator Joe McCarthy further exacerbated tensions in the 1950s with unfounded claims of communist infiltration in the US government and bullying tactics against witnesses, in what became known as McCarthyism. This period saw widespread hysteria that ruined lives and careers until public opinion turned against McCarthy when his hearings were televised and he could not produce evidence to support his extreme claims.

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    Fear of Communism

    Name: Mr. Budd


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    Growing fears

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    Breakdown of relations

    At end of WWII, USA and USSR


    controlled half of Europe each.
    Both worried about the other.
    Federal Employee Loyalty
    Progamme (FELP) - sacked
    suspected Communists.
    House of Un-American Activities
    Committee (HUAAC)
    investigated 'Communist
    influtration'.

    By late 1940s there were real


    concerns about Soviet
    intentions.
    1948 Berlin Blockade.
    1949 Communist takeover of
    China, first Soviet atom bomb.
    1950 Invasion of South Korea
    by Communist North Korea.

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    Hysteria

    Suspected Communist
    sympathisers were blacklisted.
    1948 Alger Hiss (former US
    state department official) falsely
    accused of spying. Imprisoned
    for 5 years.
    1950 Julius and Ethel
    Rosenberg convicted of passing
    nuclear secrets.

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    Impact

    McCarthyism

    Senator Joe McCarthy, a


    Republican senator, claimed
    Communists were everywhere in
    the US government.
    Nobody challenged him
    otherwise they would be
    branded a 'Commie'!
    He forced over 2 thousand
    innocent people to appear in
    front of the HUAAC.

    Why did it end?

    He bullied, threatened and


    accused witnesses.
    Once the hearings were
    televised public opinion turned
    against him.
    Couldn't produce the evidence.
    He claimed the US army was
    infultrated - this was too much!
    Relations with USSR improved
    since death of Stalin (1953).

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    Showed how fearful America


    was of Communism - 'the Red
    Scare'.
    Many thousands of civil
    servants lost their jobs, as did
    teachers, actors, writers and
    performers.
    The scare meant that many
    reputations were unfairly ruined
    e.g. Charlie Chaplin.

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