THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
MCCARTHYISM AND THE RED SCARE
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Hollywood 9 / Hollywood
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Hollywood 10 / Prison
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D.C. 10 / Mar a Lago
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Movie Men / New York
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Detailed explanation-1: -Referred to as the Hollywood Ten, they were indicted for contempt of Congress and sentenced to brief imprisonment.
Detailed explanation-2: -Pressured by Congress, the Hollywood establishment started a blacklist policy, banning the work of about 325 screenwriters, actors and directors who had not been cleared by the committee.
Detailed explanation-3: -The “Hollywood Ten, ” as the men were known, are sentenced to one year in jail. The Supreme Court later upheld the contempt charges. The contempt charges stemmed from the refusal of the 10 men to answer questions posed by HUAC as to whether they were or had ever been members of the Communist Party.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hollywood figures, including film stars Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni, and Edward G. Robinson, are named in a FBI report as Communist Party members. Such reports helped to fuel the anticommunist hysteria in the United States during the late-1940s and 1950s.
Detailed explanation-5: -Lesson Summary. 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.