HIST 1200 Lecture : Notes for History
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Cold war domestic policy: a fair deal: a push for civil rights, combating racial injustices: attempts to assert their rights. In the south where violence greeted african americans": truman"s civil rights program office to set a moral agenda for the nation"s longest unfulfilled promise. : truman broke sharply with the past and used his: fair deal founders . Mccarthyism fighting communism at home: second red scare: Anyone who stepped outside of the cold war consensus was considered suspect and a possible communist. In 1947, truman established loyalty review boards to. Suspects unable to face accusers or require investigators to reveal sources. By 1953, 560 people were fired or denied jobs on security grounds and countless others resigned or with withdrew applications. Loyalty boards uncovered zero evidence of actual espionage or subversion. Fbi, under j. edgar hoover used anti-communism to expand their power and spy on thousands of american citizens.
