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McCarthyism, HUAC, and Religion

McCarthyism, HUAC, and Religion. 1950s Red Scare. Joseph McCarthy. -Senator from Wisconsin Head of Subcommittee on Investigations Roy Cohn “McCarthyism” – finding “Reds” in gov’t Attacked: George C. Marshall Army Democratic Adversaries. McCarthy. Roy Cohn. George C. Marshall.

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McCarthyism, HUAC, and Religion

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  1. McCarthyism, HUAC, and Religion 1950s Red Scare

  2. Joseph McCarthy • -Senator from Wisconsin • Head of Subcommittee on Investigations • Roy Cohn • “McCarthyism” – finding “Reds” in gov’t • Attacked: • George C. Marshall • Army • Democratic Adversaries

  3. McCarthy

  4. Roy Cohn

  5. George C. Marshall

  6. Downfall of Mc • Army-McCarthy Hearings (1953-4) • Attacked army personnel on tv • Brashness and meanness stunned Americans • Joseph Welch – “Have you no decency?” • Edward R Murrow starts attacking Mc • Censured by Senate

  7. Edward R Murrow

  8. Joseph Welch “Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO2iiovYq70

  9. HUAC • House on Un-American Activities Committee – 1947 • Investigate subversive, “communist” activities • Richard Nixon • Famous Hearings • “Hollywood 10” • Attacked Hollywood for being pro-soviet • Led to blacklisting • Alger Hiss • State Dept – accused of being a spy

  10. Hollywood Ten

  11. Alger Hiss

  12. The Majestic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ecwKeU1_IU

  13. What led to McCarthyism/HUAC? • Terrible Year of ‘49 • USSR: A-bomb • China – Communist • Rosenberg Trial • Julius and Ethel – ordinary citizens • Spied for USSR – secrets of a-bomb • executed

  14. Rosenbergs

  15. Religion in the 1950s • USSR – “godless” enemy • Religious Revivals • Billy Graham • Oral Roberts • Civil Religion • “one nation under God” – Pledge of Allegiance • “In God We Trust” – US currency

  16. Billy Graham

  17. Oral Roberts

  18. Money – Irony?

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