| A | B |
|---|
| HUAC | House Committee on Un-American Activities- a committee in the House of Representatives created to expose Communist subversion in American society. |
| perjury | lying under oath |
| McCarthyism | unfairly accusing others of disloyalty and subversion. |
| Alger Hiss | former U.S. State Department employee accused of being a Communist and giving secret documents to the Soviet Union. |
| Loyalty Review Board | created by Truman to investigate whether subversives had inflitrated the U.S. govenment. |
| Ethel and Julius Rosenberg | executed for their part in a spy ring that passed atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. |
| Joseph R. McCarthy | U.S. senator who led a crusade against alleged communist influence in American society. |
| Richard Nixon | Republican congressman who became a national figure with his role on the HUAC. |
