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The National Defense Education Act was passed in 1958 in response to Soviet acceleration of the space race with the launch of the satellite Sputnik.  It established the legitimacy of federal funding of higher education and made substantial funds available for low-cost student loans, boosting public and private colleges and universities.

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NASA was an act to provide for research into the problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for other purposes." With this simple preamble, the Congress and the President of the United States created the national Aeronautics and Space Administration on October 1, 1958.

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During the early years of the Cold War, the United States developed and fielded a hydrogen bomb in the face of repeated military and political provocations by the Soviet Union. The explosion of a Soviet atomic device in 1949, in fact, gave major impetus to the US hydrogen bomb project.

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He is known for alleging that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere.

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McCarthyism was the practice of making false or unfounded accusations of subversion and treason, especially when related to anarchism, communism, and socialism, and especially when done in a public and attention-grabbing manner

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The Internal Security Act was An Act to protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive activities by requiring registration of Communist organizations. Congress passed the McCarran Internal Security Act in 1950 over the veto of President Harry Truman four months into the Korean War. Critics believed the act posed a risk to First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and association.

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In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage under the U.S. Espionage Act of 1917. They were Members of the communist party, the Rosenbergs were convicted of passing secret information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union in 1945.

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Alger Hiss was an American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Statutes of limitations had expired for espionage, but he was convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.

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The Hollywood Ten was a group of 10 film industry members that refused to testify to an anti-communist committee hearing during the Second Red Scare era. The Second Red Scare was a time period marked by the fear of a communism takeover during the initial phases of the Cold War Era.

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The House Un-American Activities Committee

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The House Un-American Activities Committee

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HUAC was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and rebel activities on the part of private citizens, public employees and organizations suspected of having Communist ties. Citizens suspected of having ties to the communist party would be tried in a court of law.

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The National Security Council (NSC) is the President's principal forum for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his or her senior advisors and cabinet officials. Since its inception under President Truman, the Council's function has been to advise and assist the President and to coordinate matters of national security among government agencies