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| that made it illegal to join or be affiliated within any organization that discussed overthrowing the Federal Government. |
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| that greatly amended the powers given to labor unions under the National Labor Relations Act or the Wagner Act of 1935. It restricted the types of strikes, allowed the federal government to issue injunctions to stop strikes and stated that union leaders had to purge the Communists from their rolls. |
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| Dennis, a leader within the Community Party, argued that this act was a violation of his First Amendment rights. The court ruled that any organization that attempted to overthrow the government needed to be shut down and this was not a violation of his first amendment rights. Many Communists leaders will face persecution under the Smith Act. |
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| a Chinese newspaper in California, faced one of the earliest raids. It was believed that paper sympathized with the Chinese communists and was a front for a spy ring that was passing classified government documents to the Chinese. |
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| the fifties sound merged gospel, hillybilly rock, blues and crossed racial barriers between black and white. Elvis Presley was a white man who sang like a black man and the music industry went nuts. |
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| they foreshadow the counterculture of the 1960s, specifically the hippies. The Beats were intellectual rebels who rebelled against the materialism and conformity of the 1950s. |
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| published in 1957 by Jack Keroauc. If you read it, and I have tried, it is hard to follow but it depicts a group of kids traveling across the country. Most famous book |
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| House on Un American Activities Committee |
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| The raids and the investigations into government officials, prompted Congressional members to launch their own investigation into Communism in the U.S. In the late 1940s, Congress formed the House on Un-American Activities Committee also known as HUAC. HUAC identified three key areas where they felt Communist would have the greatest influence in swaying public opinion against America. |
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| one of the more famous senators on the HUAC committee, ascended to elected office because of the HUAC investigations. He ran on a campaign of identifying and ridding American of Communism and became the symbol of the HUAC trials when he served on the committee. |
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| these were writers, producers and a few actors who refused to give up names or answer the questions directed to them instead they pled the Fifth Amendment which made them look guilty (Some were card carrying members of the Communist Party.) |
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| completed in the 1950s, the movie depicts a mining strike in New Mexico and the importance of the wives in supporting this strike. The movie contains few headline stars that you would recognize except maybe for Will Geer (He eventually went on to play Grandpa Walton in the 1970s Walton's.) |
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| A former state department employee in the 1930s, Hiss was accused of passing state department documents to the Soviet Union. |
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| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg |
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| They were arrested for conspiracy to commit espionage for the passing of secret documents from the Los Alamos New Mexico facility (brain child of the atomic bomb). The Rosenbergs were active members of the Communist Party and Julius Rosenberg was a former employee of Los Alamos |
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| o describe this period when women were to be at the forefront of the Communist fight by creating the perfect home and rearing the perfect children. The press and television encouraged women to not work and to have as many children as possible. |
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