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1947 President Truman ordered investigation of government workers to determine loyalty.
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Ten people in the entertainment industry refused to answer questions of HUAC. They were later fired and were the first Blacklisted in second Red Scare.
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Group of people from the entertainment industry that protested the harsh treatment. All were fire and never re hired.
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Were arrested for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government. These trials then became symbolic of the period.
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Alger Hiss had been part of the Roosevelt administration in the 1930s and a high-level State Deparmtnet official. During the testimony of Whittaker Chambers, Hiss was found to be part of an underground communist network during the same time.
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The Wheeling speech was McCarthy's first involvement that gained him major publicity. He then produced 205 names of people of the Communist Party that were also under State employment.
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A pamphlet named 151 people in the entertainment industry classified as communist or red-fascist sympathisers. They were all fired.
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Was the first piece of legislation passed that could really defy the US Constitution and ban the right to assembly and the freedom of belief.
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It was claimed that they were giving information about The American nuclear weaponry to the Soviets. They were then convicted and sentenced and death.
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McCarhty questioned the political loyalty of the US Army. The trials marked the beginning of McCarthey's downfall and the period of national hysteria declined, but suspicion of communists was only removed at a national level at the end of the Cold War.
