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Let's Play The Game
Lets Play THE GAME
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The Rules

• No person can show his/her card to anyone.
• You must get into a group (no fewer than 4
  people.) 8 in an regular class.
• You must attempt to have NO DOTS in your group.
• If you are a DOT, you must try to get into the
  largest group possible.
• A group of 4 or more with no dots give each
  person 3 extra credit points.
• Any group of 4 or more with DOTS will result in
  the DOTS getting 3 ex cr points.
• Let the GAME begin!!!!

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The Dots

• How did you determine who was a dot and who was
  a non-dot?
• Were you ever accused of being a dot and if so,
  how did you feel?
• How did you convince others that you were NOT a
  dot?
• What emotions are involved in playing this game?

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Can you think of connections between this
activity and American History? Examples?
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Another Red Scare

• Truman responds to spying problem
• Loyalty Review Board
• House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
• 1949 - 11 prosecuted for violating Smith Act
  (which made it illegal to advocate or be a member
  of an organization that advocates the overthrow
  of the government.
• The Hollywood Ten
• McCarran Internal Security Act required
  communists to register with the Attorney General,
  and denied citizenship to communists.

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Senator Joseph McCarthy
Are you now, or have you ever been a member of
the Communist Party?
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• Alger Hiss
• Richard Nixon brought the charges of spying for
  Russia. Given two 5 year prison terms (served 44
  months.)
• The Rosenbergs
• Soviets get the bomb in 1949
• Ethel and Julius Rosenberg gave info on the
  atomic bombdeath penalty!

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Spy Cases
Lewis Allen
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Watch the History channel special on the McCarthy
Hearings

• Write down information which shows the fear of
  communism, and the lengths the government went to
  rid our nation of the communist threat.

Are you now, or have you ever been a member of
the Communist Party?
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