The Red Scare

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The Red Scare

• I. Definition and background
• -purging the left
• -blurring the distinction between progressivism
  (liberalism)
• -similar to the Red Scare following WWI

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-similar to the Red Scare following
WWI -connection to the Cold War
-political opportunism II. The Politics of
anti-Communism -HUAC -post-war
espionage
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-Loyalty Program -The Hollywood Ten
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-Alger Hiss --prominent
Democrat --seemed to give credibility to
link between Communism liberalism -Pum
pkin Papers Incident
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-Joseph McCarthy
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