1. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
• List some of the reasons why there
might be a fear of Communism in the
United States
• How should the government respond
to a threat of internal Communism? Do
they have a right to intervene?

2. HOUSE OF UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES
COMMITTEE
• HUAC
• Created to discredit Roosevelt and the New Deal
• After the first Red Scare of 1919
• Pushed aside during WWII because of the alliance
with Stalin and the Soviet Union
• Richard Nixon became the “voice of reason” on
the HUAC

3. WHITAKER CHAMBERS
• Senior editor for Time Magazine
• Former member of the Communist party
• Became disillusioned with the party and went
against it

4. ALGER HISS
• Chambers met him during his Communist days
• Graduate of Harvard
• Went to Yalta as a part of FDR’s staff
• President of Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace

5. THE CASE AGAINST HISS
• Chamber suspected Hiss of still being a Communist
• Nixon risked career and prosecuted Hiss
• Hiss admitted to knowing Chambers under a
different name

6. THE PUMPKIN PATCH
• Chambers had a roll of microfilm hidden in a
pumpkin
• Microfilm showed copies of secret State
Department documents, the “Pumpkin Papers”
• Papers were traced back to Hiss

7. AFTERWARDS
• Hiss convicted of 2 counts of perjury and sentenced
to 5 years of prison
• Nixon came out the victor.
• Nixon was supported by the press

8. FEDERAL EMPLOYEE LOYALTY
PROGRAM
• Slightest suspicion of disloyalty or connection to the
Communist party could put a government worker
out of a job
• From 1947-1951, “loyalty board” investigated 3
million government employees with 3,000 forced to
resigned and 212 fired.

9. “A-BOMB” SPIES
• Klaus Fuchs – admitted to giving A-bomb secrets to
the Soviets
• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg – executed for being
spies without much evidence