Anticommunism

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Anticommunism

• Prehistory
• The Popular Front
• The House Un-American Activities Committee
• McCarthyism
• Spy cases and loyalty oaths
• HUAC and the Hollywood Ten
• Senator Joseph McCarthy
• Government surveillance
• Was there a communist threat?

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Prehistory gt Scottsboro March announcement, Daily
Worker, 1934
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Prehistory gt Photograph of Diego Riveras mural
destroyed by Nelson Rockefeller, 1933
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Prehistory gt Diego Rivera, Man, Controller of the
Universe, fresco, Mexico City, 1934
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Prehistory gt Artists affiliated with the Popular
Front
Frank Capra
Charlie Chaplin
Orson Welles
Duke Ellington
Dorothea Lange
John Steinbeck
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Prehistory gt Un-American! Washington Post (1938)
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McCarthyism gt Herbert Blocks cartoon about
McCarthyism, 1949
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McCarthyism gtArticle in defense of Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg, 1951
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McCarthyism gt The Hollywood Ten
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McCarthyism gt Herbert Blocks cartoon, 1950
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McCarthyism gt FBI File of Radio/TV Journalist
Eric Sevareid - letter to the FBI
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McCarthyism gt FBI File of Radio/TV Journalist
Eric Sevareid - FBI report to NSA