red scare

Blacklisted

People who were put on a list to

Geneva Summit

1958; Meeting of Britain, France, US, and the Soviet Union to help resolve their differences; Largely failed

Space Race

A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union.

Alger Hiss

A former State Department official who was accused of being a Communist spy and was convicted of perjury. The case was prosecuted by Richard Nixon.

Red Scare

A period during the Cold War where the American public was terrified of Communists and the spread of Communism.

Surplus

A situation in which quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded

Edward R. Murrow

An American journalist who criticized McCarthyism and helped bring about the eventual censure of Joseph McCarthy by the U.S. government.

Reds

Another name for communists

Federal Highway Act

Appropriating $25 billion for the construction of interstate highways over a 20-year period, it was the largest public works project in American history to that point.

Black List

During the Red Scare a list of people or products viewed with suspicion or disapproval.

Dwight Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander

Military Industrial Complex

Eisenhower first coined this phrase when he warned American against it in his last State of the Union Address. He feared that the combined lobbying efforts of the armed services and industries that contracted with the military would lead to excessive Congressional spending.

Sputnik

First artificial Earth satellite, it was launched by Moscow in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space. It led to the creation of NASA and the space race.

Hollywood ten

Group of people in the film industry who were jailed for refusing to answer congressional questions regarding Communist influence in Hollywood

Joseph Mcarthy

Joseph McCarthy was a senator of Wisconsin. He needed the 1950 to 1954 hunt for communist in America. During those years he publicly attacked many people alleged—declared without proof—to be communist. His unfolded accusing destroyed careers of many innocent Americans and heighten the atmosphere of anti-Communist hysteria in the country

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Eisenhower years

Rise of suburbs housing boom; developers built cheaper, mass-produced housing; baby boom; U2 spy plane shot down; launching of Sputnik

Krushchev

Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall

HUAC

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was an investigating committee which investigated what it considered un-American propaganda

McCarthyism

The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Communist Sympathizers

a person who believes in communist ideology but is not a member of the Communist Party

Federal Budget

a plan for the federal government's revenues and spending for the coming year

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

an engineer and his wife who were accused, tried, and executed in the early 1950s for running an espionage ring in New York City that gave atomic secrets to the soviet union; long considered unjustly accused victims of the Red Scare, recent evidence suggests that Julius was indeed a soviet agent

Witch Hunts

an intensive effort to discover and expose disloyalty, subversion, dishonesty, or the like, usually based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence.

Hysteria

exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement, especially among a group of people.

Nuclear Arms Race

the competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union for supremacy in nuclear warfare. Both countries tried to have the largest nuclear arsenals.

J. Edgar Hoover

was the anti-Communist director of the FBI during the Red Scare?