McCarthyism Family Tree by Isabella Pontecorvo https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk en-us 2024-03-27 17:08:23 UTC 2024-04-01 17:16:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f468-1f469-1f467-1f467.png Joseph McCarthy feeneyf https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2935665416 2024-03-27 17:14:01 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2935665416 Spies pontecorvoi https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939256592 2024-04-01 15:32:20 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939256592 Manhattan Project pontecorvoi https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939256711 2024-04-01 15:32:27 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939256711 HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) pontecorvoi https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939256812 Investigated alleged rebels/spies and communists in the US.


]]> 2024-04-01 15:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939256812 Army McCarthy Hearings pontecorvoi https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939257073 Investigation regarding McCarthy's attacks and reckless communist accusations about the U.S. Army, leading to the eventual censuring of McCarthy.

]]> 2024-04-01 15:32:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939257073 Hollywood pontecorvoi https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939257172 2024-04-01 15:33:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939257172 Harry Dexter White pontecorvoi https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939260241 In 1948, White was accused of spying for the Soviet Union. Was not a communist but has relations with the Soviets.

]]> 2024-04-01 15:36:41 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939260241 Elizabeth Bentley pontecorvoi https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939260427 Bentley was both an American communist and Soviet Spy. She confessed later on because she was scared of arrest.

]]> 2024-04-01 15:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939260427 Richard Nixon pontecorvoi https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939260696 Becomes very well known and liked for being anti communist.

]]> 2024-04-01 15:37:10 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939260696 Ted Hall pontecorvoi https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939260825 American physicist and an atomic spy for the Soviet Union. Was also a part of the efforts in the creation of the first and second atomic bomb during World War ll

]]> 2024-04-01 15:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939260825 Alger Hiss feeneyf https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939260979 Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union. was convicted of perjury in 1950 by Whittaker Chambers who accused him of being a communist.

]]> 2024-04-01 15:37:32 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939260979 Edward Teller pontecorvoi https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939261392 Hungarian-American who is known as one of the "the father of the hydrogen bomb." He was primarily against communism. Teller and Oppenheimer had contradicting ideas. Accused Oppenheimer of being a communist because he wanted to be #1

]]> 2024-04-01 15:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939261392 Helen Gahagan Douglas pontecorvoi https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939261601 Gets torn down by Richard Nixon, Believes she is a communist sympathizer to the core, her career is destroyed

"Shes pink down to her underwear"


]]> 2024-04-01 15:38:17 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939261601 Walt Disney pontecorvoi https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939261708 Walt Disney testified before HUAC. Provided information about union activity at his studios and a list of individuals he believed to be communists. His studios have no connection between Russia. (snitch)

]]> 2024-04-01 15:38:26 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939261708 Ronald Regan lofasop https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939262833 anti communist snitch

]]> 2024-04-01 15:39:07 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939262833 Lucille Ball lofasop https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939262995 The FBI revealed Lucille Ball was registered to vote for the Communist party in 1952. This does not mean she voted for them but it was speculated. Was also in an interracial relationship in the 1950s. Through all this her show did not get cancelled.

]]> 2024-04-01 15:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939262995 J. Robert Oppenheimer lofasop https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939270211 As the father of the atomic bomb, Oppenheimer claimed he wasn't a communist, but still had connections with other communist friends. Also means he is connected to Ted Hall, because he is a spy, but also worked with the atomic bomb.

]]> 2024-04-01 15:47:24 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939270211 Harry Truman feeneyf https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939313501 Pledged that the United States would help any nation resist communism in order to prevent its spread. His policy of containment is known as the Truman Doctrine. Watched and allowed HUAC to be created, which destroyed many lives

]]> 2024-04-01 16:43:25 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939313501 Hollywood 10 feeneyf https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939318247 Group of ten Hollywood producers/directors/screenwriters: Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and Dalton Trumbo.


Appeared in front of HUAC to answer questions regarding communist affiliations. They refused to sign loyalty oaths.

]]> 2024-04-01 16:49:43 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939318247 Rosenbergs (Ethel & Julius) feeneyf https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939321421 American couple who were suspected Soviet Spies

]]> 2024-04-01 16:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939321421 Roy Cohn feeneyf https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939327566 Supported and agreed with McCarthy in this hearing

Conspiracy that he was gay and in love with McCarthy

]]> 2024-04-01 17:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939327566 Robert F. Kennedy feeneyf https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939329618 Was a lawyer, has an older sister who dated Joseph McCarthy

Was chief counsel against McCarthy in this hearing, did not agree with him

]]> 2024-04-01 17:03:24 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939329618 Klaus Fuchs feeneyf https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939337107 Spy

]]> 2024-04-01 17:13:13 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939337107 David Greenglass feeneyf https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939337799 Was a spy, introduced his sister to Julius Rosenberg (other spy)

Through his sister under the bus on trial

]]> 2024-04-01 17:14:05 UTC https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939337799 Joseph Welch feeneyf https://padlet.com/pontecorvoi/89xeq8yepz9vd8uk/wish/2939339089 Ends Joseph McCarthy on live TV:

"have you no shame"

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