Lesson 13-3: The Cold War & American Society Name: ___________________

I. A New Red Scare – a Clerk named Igor Gouzenko walked out of Soviet embassy in Ottawa, Canada, & _________
a. Showed Soviet effort to infiltrate gov’t – goal of getting information about the ______ bomb. It implied that
_______ had infiltrated the USA. Escalated into a general fear of _________ - effort to weaken a society
II. The Truman ________ Review Program – screened all federal employees.
a. might become a suspect for reading certain ______, belonging to various groups, or seeing _______ films
III. HUAC & Anti-Communist Investigations – House ___-American Activities Commission (HUAC)
a. Under ________’s leadership the _____ sent agents to infiltrate groups & ___________ 1000s of telephones
b. 1st hearings – focuse don the ______ industry. Future American president Ronald ________ was head of the
Screen Actors Guild – testified there were Communists in ____________. During the hearings, ____
screenwriters used their ______ Amendment right to protect themselves. The incident led producers to
__________, or agree not to hire, anyone who was believed to be a Communist
c. Alger Hiss – a diplomat – denied being either a _____ or a member of the Communist party
d. Representative Richard _____ convinced his colleagues to continue the hearings. Produced copies of secret
documents hidden in a hollow ________ - these proved Hiss was lying. – guilty of _______, lying under oath
e. The Rosenbergs – spy case – American Communists had sold secrets about the ______ bomb to the Soviets
f. The Rosenbergs denied charges but were condemned to _______ for espionage – ___________ in June 1953
g. Project Venona – 1946 Cracked the Soviet Union’s ____ code – gov’t did not reveal the existence until _____
IV. McCarthyism – little-known ________ - halfway through his speech, made a surprising statement:
a. “I have here in my ______ a list of ____ that were known to the SoS as being members of the Com. Party…”
b. Reporters asked to see the list – he would be happy to show it to them, but unfortunately, it was in his big
on the ______. In fact, the list never ___________. McCarthy, however, continued making __________
c. The prevailing anxiety about communism made many Americans willing to accept McCarthy’s ________
d. The McCarran Act - made it illegal to attempt to establish a ___________ gov’t in the USA & required al
____________-related organizations to publish their records. Communists could not have __________.
Truman ________ the bill, but Congress easily overrode his _____.
e. In 1953, McCarthy became chariman of the Senate subcommittee on ___________ - became ____________
or searches for disloyalty based on weak evidence. McCarthy’s tactic became known as _____________
f. McCarthy’s sensational accusations put him in the ____________ - People were afraid to ___________ him
g. In 1954, began to look for Soviet spies in the US ______. His popular support began to _______.
h. Finally, a person exploded at McCarthy, “Have you sense of ________, sir, at long last?”
i. Spectators cheered. Later that year, Senate passed a vote of ________, or formal disapproval, @ McCarthy
V. Life During the Cold War – the Red Scare & spread of __________ weapons had a profound impact
a. Americans were shocked when the Soviets successfully tested the more powerful ________ bomb, or ___-
Bomb, in 1953. The US had tested theirs less than a _____ earlier. Schools created bomb __________ & held
bomb _______ to teach students to “_____-and-______” to protect themselves from a nuclear bomb blast
b. Experts have noted that for eery person killed outright by a blast, _____ more would die later from
_________, the radiation left over after a blast
VI. Popular Culture in the Cold War
a. Arthur Miller’s thiny veiled criticism of the Communist witch-hunts, The ________
b. Popular tunes such as “_______ Boogie” & “_____ Bomb Baby” played on the radio
c. At the same time, the country was enjoying postwar __________ & optimism. That spirit made the early
1950s a time of _________.