8. Red Scare: Politics and the Early Cold War
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
FULL BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Why did so many Americans fear communist subversion?
2. What was the relationship between foreign and domestic policy in the early years of the Cold War?

Required Reading
Jonathan M. Schoenwald, "The Cold War Hits Home" in A time for choosing : the rise of modern American conservatism (Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 35-61

Further Reading:
Les K. Adler and Thomas G. Paterson, "Red Fascism: The Merger of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia in the American Image of Totalitarianism, 1930's-1950's", The American Historical Review, Vol. 75, No. 4. (Apr., 1970), pp. 1046-1064 (JSTOR)
Ellen Shrecker, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998), especially chapters 4 and 5
Jonathan Bell, The Liberal State on Trial (2004)

Primary Documents
Testimony of Paul Robeson before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, June 12, 1956 [at the History Matters web site]
Senator Joseph McCarthy, Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, 1950
The Literature and Culture of the 1950s: documents and links from the University of Pennsylvannia