anti- communist fears and such...

• it affected the entertainment industry
• 1947, 3 days after Truman Doc. is announced, the HUAC opened hearing on the CUSA's activities in Hollywood.
• HUAC went after 10 screenwriters, producers, and directors who were, or had been CPUSA members and refused to testify.
• the Hollywood 10 went to prison for contempt of congress.
• studio heads secretly drew up "black list" which was a list of alledged people who could no longer work in Hollywood
• Reagan and Nixon made early political reputations through HUAC hearings.
• Reagan was a secret informant for the FBI
• Nixon was involved with a journalist named Whittaker Chambers, a former CPUSA member, and accuses state department Alger Hiss of passing documents to Solviets
• the statute of limitations had run out of Alger's activities so he was only charged with committing purjury.
• Hid had been an advisor to Frankin Roosevelt at Yalta
• these events convinced many that greater effort had to be taken to block out solviet spys.
• the release of the Venona files gave evidence that hiss and others had passed info to the solviets.
• at this time, J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI was drawing up his own list of alleged subversives
• writers were named like Hemingway and Steinbeck
• in 1952, congress passed McCarran Walter act which placed restrictions on immigration from outside northren and westren europe and on the entry of people susspected of being a national security threat
• homosexuals were singled out because some gay activists had been members of the communist party and because it was widely believed that homosexuals could be blackmailed by solviets
• solviet nuclear tests added fear
• people wondered how solviets managed to make the bomb
• 1950 great britan shares info on spy rog opperating in the US
• 2 CPUSA members, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are arrested and executed for being spies.
• he was spying and she was being a loyal wife
• McCarran Act
• it authorized detention during national emergency of supersives in special camps
• this act was passed over Trumans Veto but never acually passed
• McCarthey went too far when he attacked the US Army
• Americans watched 35 days of hearing on TV
• He did himself in by desplaying a mean streak and irrisponsibility
• he accuased that spying was going on in state department, but had no evidence
• 1947 debate sprung over governments responsibility to provide jobs
• full employment Act increased gov. spending and ensured employment for all citizens.
• it fails
• Employment Atc is better and is passed
• it says that "maximum" emplyment is what it was responseible for
• it created Economic Advisors
• it would ensure economic steady growth
• the GI bill comes out of this
• it gives money to veterns out of WWII for college and what not, over several million men and 40000 women.
• it provided generous terms of home or business loans
• provided care at veterens hospitals
• it extended to korean war veterans through the Vetern's reajustment act

_ Faye LeBlanc