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    The document summarizes key events of the domestic Cold War period in the United States, including the establishment of the House Un-American Activities Committee to investigate communist influence and blacklist suspected communists from jobs. It also discusses Senator Joseph McCarthy's communist witch hunts in the 1950s, where he made reckless accusations of communist infiltration without evidence. Additionally, it outlines the economic boom of the postwar period in the 1950s, including increased consumer goods, the GI Bill, suburbanization, and events like the launch of Sputnik that kicked off the Space Race.

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    The document summarizes key events of the domestic Cold War period in the United States, including the establishment of the House Un-American Activities Committee to investigate communist influence and blacklist suspected communists from jobs. It also discusses Senator Joseph McCarthy's communist witch hunts in the 1950s, where he made reckless accusations of communist infiltration without evidence. Additionally, it outlines the economic boom of the postwar period in the 1950s, including increased consumer goods, the GI Bill, suburbanization, and events like the launch of Sputnik that kicked off the Space Race.

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    The document summarizes key events of the domestic Cold War period in the United States, including the establishment of the House Un-American Activities Committee to investigate communist influence and blacklist suspected communists from jobs. It also discusses Senator Joseph McCarthy's communist witch hunts in the 1950s, where he made reckless accusations of communist infiltration without evidence. Additionally, it outlines the economic boom of the postwar period in the 1950s, including increased consumer goods, the GI Bill, suburbanization, and events like the launch of Sputnik that kicked off the Space Race.

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    Domestic Results of the Cold

    War
    Ch. 17

    House Un-American Activities Committee


    Red Scare/Red Smear- communists in
    and out of America working to destroy
    American life
    Expose communist influence in America
    Threatened people with the loss of jobs &
    blacklists
    Hollywood Ten
    Uncovered writers, directors, and producers
    who were or had been communists

    Truman v. Communists
    March 1947, Federal Employee Loyalty
    Program
    FBI screened for political disloyalty, 3,000
    lost their government jobs

    Smith Act- Illegal to advocate the violent


    overthrow of the government

    Communist Witch Hunts


    1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy
    Claimed State Department employees were communists
    Never provided names
    Senate begins televising the hearings, Americans are
    disgusted with McCarthys lies and bullying of witnesses
    Red Scare ends with his
    downfall in 1954 along with the
    Korean Wars end in 1953
    McCarthyism- extreme
    reckless charges

    Spy Cases
    Alger Hiss
    communist spy
    Julius and Ethel
    Rosenberg- were
    tried, convicted, and
    executed for
    espionage

    the 1950s

    Life After the War The Economic Boom


    Wartime savings
    New consumer goods to buy
    GI Bill
    Paid for college, home loans, or business loans

    Interstate Highway Act


    Baby boom
    Dr. Spocks Common Sense Book of Baby and
    Child Care
    At the peak- 1 baby born every 7 sec.

    Life After the War


    Immense move to suburbs
    Levittown

    Conformity
    Why?

    Sputnik starts the Space Race


    National Defense Education Act
    Creation of NASA

    Television!
    Rock-n-Roll
    Elvis Presley

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