Fear Back at Home

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AN ERA
OF
FEAR
Loyalty Review Boards
Government employees
need to prove that they are
loyal to the US
Government
The House Committee on
Un-American Activities
Investigates the Hollywood Movie
Industry!! Live on Television!
10 Unfriendly
Witnesses Dubbed
the “Hollywood
10” refused to
answer questions
based on their unConstitutionality
Spies Make Headlines!!
Alger Hiss
Congressman Nixon pursues
the case against Hiss…
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
This Spy was hired by the
FBI to spy on Communists
This Senator from
Wisconsin
desperately needs
a campaign idea to
win the next
election…
McCarthy accuses many
without evidence
Listen to
McCarthy Here
The H-Bomb
10x more powerful than
our greatest estimates
Soviets are Right Behind Us!
Andrei
Sakharov is
the designer
of the Soviet
H-Bomb,
tested less
than a year
after the US
tests theirs
John Foster Dulles
If a Nation would dare to attack us,
or perchance one of our allies,
with a force of X, it would become
incumbent upon us to respond with
a force of 2X. Needless to say, we
would retaliate at a time of our
choosing, in a place of our
choosing, and in a method of our
choosing. This is what we would
like to call 'Massive Retaliation'.
Propaganda!!
Which side would you
believe??
Sound the alarm if your parents
believe in God!!
Commercials were
extremely powerful!
This is what Communists
are really all about….