As the Cold War developed, the US experienced its second Red Scare. Examine HUAC OR McCarthyism, representative of the Cold War’s Home Front. Explain the role popular culture—movies, comic books, sports—played in creating a domestic mood of paranoia in the 1950s, as well as the lessons to be learned from this era of domestic repression. What lessons are there to be learned from this time in America’s past?

As the Cold War developed, the US experienced its second Red Scare. Examine HUAC OR McCarthyism, representative of the Cold War’s Home Front. Explain the role popular culture—movies, comic books, sports—played in creating a domestic mood of paranoia in the 1950s, as well as the lessons to be learned from this era of domestic repression. What lessons are there to be learned from this time in America’s past?