5: Complete this summary sheet for McCarthyism

Causes Events Results

Alger Hiss a man Soviet Expansion who was at the Yalta led many Americans Conference with to believe that soviet Roosevelt, was expansion would deemed a infiltrate the USA. communist by Whittaker Chamber, The Enemy Within an editor on Time Truman talked about magazine. In 1950, a threat of Hiss was tried for communism from perjury and was within the USA. sentenced to 5 years in prison after FELP checked the Chambers showed security risks of Nixon microfilm that people working in had sopposely been government, in typed up on Hisss which 3,000 federal type writer workers were forced to resign and 200 The Rosenburgs were sacked after the Soviet Bomb was exploded FBI had a strong several years before Anti communist predictions leader estimated, The Rosenburgs were McCarthy Stated that tried and convicted of he had a list of 205 Conspiring to commit communists who espionage. were working in the state department The McCarran Internal Security Act - stated that the communist party had

Words like red, pinko and commie became synonymous with someone who was politically unsound, unpatriotic and thus a threat to the USA There was much spying on neighbours and government films encouraged people to expose people to expose anyone who was thought tohave communist sympathies Anyone who sought to change the USA, for example Civil rights activists were seen as communists

to register with the justice department to ensure the party and its members could be monitored In the event of a war, communists could be held in detention camps Communists were not allowed to work in armament factories Anti communist films were produced