Hunting for Subversives - The Cold  War Comes Home 

The American decision to resist the Communist North Korean invasion of South Korea in 1950 intensives  anti-Communist fears inside America,
and it gave a demagogue, Senator Joseph McCarthy, the opportunity to exploit public fears, some of which were irrational.

One Nation under God 

Loyalty Review Board  (1947)

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 The Pollster Defeat 1948; Truman outlines "Fair Deal  (1949)

HUAC  (The House Committee to Investigate Un-American activities)

The Spy Trials:  Alger Hiss(1948)  & The Rosenbergs (1951)

Sedition and Conviction  Dennis v. United States (1951)

The Red Scare Redux - The McCarthy Era

 McCarran Internal Securities Act and the McCarran Immigration and Nationality Act (1952)

1920s vs 1950s

The American people in the 1950s

http://apushcanvas.pbworks.com/w/page/52941792/Society%20and%20Culture%20of%20the%20Fifties

David Halberstrams - The Fifties