McCarthyism Quiz Study Guide

Hollywood 10

A 1950 American 16mm short documentary film. In the film, each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting.

"Commies"

A communist.

Mutually Assured Destruction

A doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.

"Duck and Cover"

A method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion.

Red Scare

A period of general fear of communists.

Alger Hiss Case

Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 - November 15, 1996) was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.

Dalton Trumbo

An American screenwriter and novelist. As one of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947.

Howard Lawson

An American writer. He was for several years head of the Hollywood division of the Communist Party USA. He was also the organization's cultural manager and answered directly to V.J. Wikipedia

Operation MKUltra

An experiment performed by the CIA which involved the use of mind control to get individuals to do assigned tasks against their own will.

Fallout Shelters

Buildings or other structures designed to protect people from radioactive fallout after a nuclear explosion.

Dwight Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American politician and soldier who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961.

John Edgar Hoover

Founded the FBI and aided many of the legislative investigations of communist activities.

Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman was an American politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States, coming to office on the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the last months of World War II.

Propaganda

Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.

Paul Robeson

Paul Leroy Robeson was an American bass singer and actor who became involved with the Civil Rights Movement.

Censorship

Restriction on access to ideas and information.

Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office.

Ronald Reagon

Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who was the 40th President of the United States, from 1981 to 1989.

HCUA

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McCarthyism

The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism without proof.

Rosenberg Case

The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court. Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians (treason could not be charged because the United States was not at war with the Soviet Union).

Joseph McCarthy

US senator; claimed that their were Soviet spies and Communists within the government but had no evidence; discredited by the US senate.