red scare
Alien registration lawThis law was actually passed in 1940. This made it illegal to talk about or teach about overthrowing the government. It also required that anyone 14 or older would have to fill out a government form stating their political past and their ties to anyone or anything that could potentially be communist. The objective of this law was to keep the American Communist Party from being vocal.
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Julius Rosenberg & Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg |
Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg were suspected of leaking information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. There wasn't any direct evidence to support this claim, but there were some sketchy behaviors and evidence found from them. Because of this accusation that they had ties with the USSR and they were leaking information, they were sentenced to death.
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Senator Joseph McCarthy
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Senator Joseph McCarthy accused many people of being communist spies. This soon caused fear and paranoia in the American people so they believed what he said and he would gain them as followers. He began to dominate the US politics from 1948-1953. He would accuse all of these people in the society, but never had the evidence to back his accusations up. However, he started to make continuous mistakes when he first started accusing government officials. From there he began to accuse the American war heroes and that's where his followers started to lose interest in him and soon to follow he disappeared from media and died later on.
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