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Assignment:
CNN Cold War: Reds
1. What does the film say Americans feared at home?
2. What is the reason for HUAC's investigation of Hollywood? What set the Hollywood Ten apart?
4. What questions are they asked?
5. Describe the nature of their answers to the questions of the committee.
6. What did it mean to be blacklisted?
7. What kinds of things does Ring Lardner list as consequences of the Red Scare on Hollywood?
8. Why are the documents linking Alger Hiss to Soviet agents called the Pumpkin Papers?
9. What HUAC member makes his political career on his reputation as a communist hunter.
10. How does the narrator describe the new vision of an anti-communist America?
11. How why does racism in America merge with anti-communism?
12. What events does the film say leads to the conclusion of spies in U.S. government?
13. What is the tactic of enemy agents described by Senator Mccarthy in the clip given?
14. What state department official does he name in the clip, and what is the result to the man's life?
15. What is Truman's claim concerning communists on the government payroll?
16. How does Truman describe the kind of America Mccarthy is allegedly trying to create in order to deal with the left wing totalitarian threat?
17. What kinds of things does the government do to communist party leaders, demonstrations and labor unions?
18. How many spy rings does the narrator say the FBI uncovered? Do they mention any of them in detail?
19. What methods does agent Wesley Swearingen describe as used by the FBI, and what is the unspoken point made concerning the FBI and communist party tactics?
20. What is one difference between FBI tactics and Soviet tactics in these apparently similar methods?
21. What difference does the narrator identify, between school teacher and former communist Frances Eisenberg, questioned by a state senate committee, and those questioned by the KGB in the U.S.S.R.?
22. Of what does the narrator say Joseph Mccarthy accuse General Marshall?
23. What does the film say is the reason for protests over the death sentence given to the Rosenbergs?
24. What does the film say is Mccarthy's undoing, in which he had gone too far?
25. How does Mccarthy lose credibility before the nation on television?