Looks at the paranoia of the 1950s when Americans lived in fear of communism. The House Committee on Un-American Activities created blacklists of people working in Hollywood, McCarthyism flourished, and the Rosenberg couple were tried and executed for passing top-secret information to the Russians.

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mccarthyism

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fear of communism, army-mccarthy hearings, huac, hollywood blacklist, house committee on un-american activities, khan academy: anticommunism in the 1950s, red scare, rosenberg trial, senator joseph mccarthy, soviet spies, fear of soviet espionage, red scare in the 1950s

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Classroom Considerations

Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice

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