House Committee On Un-American Activities (HUAC):
- Was created in 1938
- Investigative committee in the US House of Representatives that tried to get rid of communism
- President Richard Nixon was an active participant
- Investigated public employees, private citizens, and organizations suspected of having communist ties
- They took away people's rights and put them in jail even if they weren't lying
- Used Hollywood to promote communism through propaganda movies
- There were 10 days of hearings for the ten Hollywood actors they questioned
- The actors were put in jail because they said they didn't know anything
- HUAC even came to schools to drive out communism
- They limited on-campus speakers unless they were approved by the administration first
- Ended in 1975
Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism:
- Got elected into the Senate but didn't do much in his first three years
- Generally people liked him however
- Was against death sentences given to German soldiers that committed the Malmedy Massacre in 1944
- Because he didn't agree with it, he started to become unpopular
- Made claims of people being communist within the government although he didn't have proof and often changed what he said
- McCarthyism is used as a term to refer to people who make untrue accusations
- Term came about after Joe McCarthy made multiple accusations about people in government positions being spies or communists
- He also made many accusations towards army personnel none of which he was able to prove
- These false statements got him in trouble
- Died at age 48
China Becomes Communist/Mao Zedong:
- Mao Zedong was the leader and founding father of the Republic of China
- Was a commander of the Long March
- Led the Communist Party of China to victory against Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist Party in the Chinese Civil War
- Chiang Kai-Shek was the leader of the Nationalist Party
- Led Nationalist China in the Second-Sino Japanese War (Japanese invades China in WWII)
- This severely weakened the Nationalist Party
- The Chinese Civil War:
- Was fought by Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist Party and the Communist Party of China
- The communists won and forced Chiang to flee to Taiwan
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