2nd Red Scare Flashcards

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Nationalist leader of Iran who was overthrown with the help of the US CIA. Replaced by Shah Mohommed Reza Pahlevi in 1953

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Mohammand Mossadegh

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War between Chinese govt forces led by Chiang Ki-Shek and Communist forces led by Mao Zedong. In 1949 Chiang and his supporters fled to Taiwan, where they set up a seperate national govt

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Chinese Civil War

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State Department official accused of being a Communist spy who was convicted of perjury and sent to prision

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Alger Hiss

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Televised investigations by Senator McCarthy. The hearings ended McCarthy’s popularity and led to his censor of the US Senate

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Army-McCarthy Hearings 1954

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Congressional Committee, created in 1938, that began suspecting potenial communists and fellow travelers in the late 40s and 50s

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House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

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Nationalist leader of Vietnam who opposed the US during the Vietnam war

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Ho Chi Minh

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Immigration law that permited deportation and denial of entry into the US for ideological reasons

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McCarren-Walter Act 1952

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Husband and wife that were executed in 1953 for passing informatin of the atomic bomb to the Soviets

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

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Executive agency composed of the president, vice president, and four chamber members. Established to coordinate the strategic policies and defense of the US

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National Security Council 1947

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Republican Seneter from WI who in 1950 began a Communist witch-hunt that lasted until he was censored by the Senate in 1954

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Joseph McCarthy

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Leader of Egypt who successfully opposed the French and British imperial powers during the 1956 Suez Crisis

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Gamal Abdel Nasser

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Governtment agency created to gather and evaluate military, political, social and economic information on forign nations

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Central Intellegence Agency (CIA) 1947

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Term used to describe the tactic of making accusations of corruption of disloyalty without evidence and no regard for civil liberties

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McCarthyism

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Law that required Communists to register to the US govt and made it a crime to conspire to establish a totalitarian govt in the US. This law also allowed for the detension of dangerous, disloyal, or subversive persons

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McCarren Internal Security Act 1950

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Someone who sympathized with or supported the beliefs of the Communist pary. Many of them were investaged and blacklisted during the late 40s and and 50s

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Fellow Traveler

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