This was the period of the Red Scare, the second time, after WWII, that Senetor Joseph McCarthy investigated many thousands of Americans who he suspected of helping the Soviet Union advance communism
Read the Big Fat Notebook of American History pages 424-425
Now go to this video:
Now do this quiz: https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5c94ca02587644001a3b9359/mccarthyism
Discuss:
Why did Joseph McCarthy think that there were Communists working for the Government?
What did he do about it?
What was the short term effects of the investigations?
What was the long term effects ?
How did Americans react?
Were there people who sold secrets to the Soviet Union?
Who were tried and excuted? Why?
Your English teacher at your service:
Rachael Alice Orbach
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