Year 10 History - The Second Red Scare: USA

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You Must Remember This is the podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century.

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The Hollywood Reporter is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries. When the House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed filmmakers to testify about communism in the industry, a few held their ground — and for a time, lost their livelihood.

Starting in 1947 the House Committee on Unamerican Activities (HUAC) pursued a series of official inquiries into the penetration of the film industry in Hollywood by the Communist Party of the United States of America.

Hollywood blacklisted these screenwriters, producers and directors for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

These prominent screenwriters and directors, who became known as the Hollywood Ten, received jail sentences and were banned from working for the major Hollywood studios.

TRUMBO dramatizes the story of arguably the most famous of the Hollywood Ten. Here we take a look at the other nine––who they were before HUAC, and what happened after they were blacklisted.

The Public Broadcasting Service is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. In the Cold War years, the U.S. government and political dissent run a dangerous collision course. The HUAC is typical of several government institutions (e.g., COINTELPRO) aiming to investigate and neutralize "subversive" groups and individuals.

Established in 1957, the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum preserves and provides access to President Truman’s historical materials.

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, established in 1938 under Martin Dies as chairman, that conducted investigations through the 1940s and ’50s into alleged communist activities.

Established in 1938, the committee wielded its subpoena power as a weapon and called citizens to testify in high-profile hearings before Congress.

For many Americans, the most enduring symbol of this “Red Scare” was Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin. Senator McCarthy spent almost five years trying in vain to expose communists and other left-wing “loyalty risks” in the U.S. government.

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In the heat of the Cold War, Joe McCarthy’s anti-communist crusade became a media sensation.
Senator Joseph McCarthy used bold accusations and populist appeal to fuel Americans’ fear about the spread of communism in the 1950s. He met his match in a hard-hitting journalist, Edward R. Murrow, whose television commentary was sharply critical of McCarthyism.

The Eisenhower Presidential Library is home to a world-class research facility that caters to scholars and history enthusiasts from around the world.

History is an American pay television network. The network was originally focused on history-based, social/science documentaries as well as the news. Factors combined to create an atmosphere of fear and dread, which proved a ripe environment for the rise of a staunch anticommunist like Joseph McCarthy.

The Miller Center is a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history and strives to apply the lessons of history and civil discourse to the nation's most pressing contemporary governance challenges.

The European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, based in Brussels, for research on and analysis of challenges posed by increasing political populism.

The second Red Scare refers to the fear of communism that permeated American politics, culture, and society from the late 1940s through the 1950s, during the opening phases of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

J. Edgar Hoover, in full John Edgar Hoover, U.S. public official who, as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1924 until his death in 1972, built that agency into a highly effective, if occasionally controversial, arm of federal law enforcement.

History is an American pay television network. The network was originally focused on history-based, social/science documentaries as well as the news. According to Greenglass, Rosenberg asked him to pass highly confidential instructions on making atomic weapons to the Soviet Union.

The Eisenhower Presidential Library is home to a world-class research facility that caters to scholars and history enthusiasts from around the world.

The first American civilians to be executed for conspiracy to commit espionage and the first to suffer that penalty during peacetime.

The Atomic Heritage Foundation (AHF), founded by Cynthia Kelly in 2002, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in Washington, DC, dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the Manhattan Project and the Atomic Age and its legacy.

History is an American pay television network. The network was originally focused on history-based, social/science documentaries as well as the news. The Red Scare was hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States.

Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), also called Communist Party USA, left-wing political party in the United States that was, from its founding in 1919 until the latter part of the 1950s, one of the country’s most important leftist organizations.