The Red Scare
Melanie Fox
Starring:
Joseph McCarthy
* A US senator from Wisconsin
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
* Two Americans that were convicted
Events
House UN-American Activities Committee
A committee that was established in 1938 to investigate fascist groups in the United States. Congress was cracking down on the Communist party in the United States.
Sputnik
It was the first artificial satellite into orbit in October 1957. The Soviet Union launched this space shuttle. A month later, they launched the Sputnick II and it had a dog aboard. With the Soviet Union doing this, president Eisen hower urged congress to promote US space technology. They eventually approved the National Defense Education Act.
Hydrogen Bomb
The United States and the Soviet Union were developing more powerful nuclear weapons. The Americans fears nuclear war. The hydrogen bomb was going to be 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. It was first tested on a small island in the Pacific.
Red Scare!
*Nuclear Anxiety
*Always searching for spies
*"the Communists within our borders have been more responsible for the success of communism abroad than Soviet Russia"
*security risks