Cold War Fears at Home

2. defense _____ posters warned Americans to remain on high alert for a nuclear attack
4. Became a catchword for extreme, reckless charges
6. President Truman's Attorney General who warned that the communists were "everywhere"
9. Number of employees in the State Department that Joseph McCarthy claimed were communists
11. Leader of the Manhattan Project who was denied access to classified information by the AEC because of his ties to people who belonged to the Communist Party
13. Group of movie writers, directors, and producers who refused to answer HUAC questions about communist ties
15. Congressional committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the United States
17. Fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life
18. President who used an executive order to create a Federal Employee Loyalty Program
20. Series of Cold War-era secret Soviet documents intercepted and later released by U.S. intelligence officials

1. The Rosenbergs, convicted for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, claimed they were being persecuted for being _____
3. 1956 film that expressed American's fears of invasion and infiltration during the Red Scare
5. In 1954, Joseph McCarthy began to claim that the United States _____ was full of communists
7. Scientist who was charged with sending atomic secrets to the Soviet Union
8. State that Joseph McCarthy was a senator from
10. Law that made it unlawful to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the United States government
12. List of persons who were not hired because of suspected communist ties
14. Communist espionage agent who accused Alger Hiss of being one of his contacts in the government
16. Alger Hiss was found guilty of this in his second trial
19. _____ v. United States: Supreme Court decided that the witnesses before HUAC could not be forced to name radicals they knew