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House Un-American Activities Commitee is formed, and this would become the organization that would investigate communists.
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The Smith Act set restrictions and laws that had criminal restrictions, and required non-citizens to report and register with the governent
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The Hollywood Reporter publishes a list of ten Hollywood people who were Communist sympathizers.
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President Truman addressed a joint session of congress and in his speech, he stated that America would fight for any country where they repressed communism.
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After accusations by Joe McCarthy, Alger Hiss was tried and convicted of perjury and espionage.
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Western Euoropean countries and America form an alliance to prevent the spreading of communism.
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Joe McCarthy gives his speech, in West Virginia, where he accuses 205 state government officials of being communists, and Soviet spies.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenburg are executed in New York, on conspiracy of espionage, and giving the Soviet Union information about the atomic bomb.
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Eastern Euopean countries form a pact to fight against the N.A.T.O. They are led by the main country of the Soviet Union.
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Joe McCarthy dies of accute hepititus in Bethesda, Maryland
