Which executive order, signed by President Truman in March 1947, created the first general loyalty program for employees of the federal executive branch?

Which 1940 federal law made it a crime to advocate or conspire to teach the violent overthrow of the United States government, and was used to prosecute leaders of the Communist Party in 1949?

Which 1950 law required Communist-action organizations to register with the Justice Department and allowed the detention of suspected subversives during a declared internal security emergency?

Which congressional committee subpoenaed screenwriters and directors in October 1947 to answer questions about communist influence in the motion picture industry?

In 1948 a former Communist courier, Whittaker Chambers, told HUAC that a former State Department official had belonged to a secret Communist group, and later produced documents he said that official had passed him. Whom did he accuse?

Executive Order 9835 placed a body inside the Civil Service Commission to set standards and hear appeals in federal employee loyalty cases. What was it called?

Which senator chaired the 1950 Senate subcommittee that investigated McCarthy's charges about communists in the State Department and reported that they were a fraud and a hoax?

In which 1951 decision did the Supreme Court uphold the Smith Act convictions of eleven leaders of the Communist Party of the United States?

Under the federal loyalty program, investigators could act on information from an informant, and an employee could be dismissed on reasonable grounds of disloyalty. What could an accused employee generally not do?

The Smith Act made conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the government a crime. In 1951 the Supreme Court upheld convictions of Communist Party leaders under it. What was the Court's reasoning?

Witnesses called before HUAC who invoked the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination rather than name other people usually escaped a contempt conviction. What happened to many of them instead?

In November 1947 studio executives meeting in New York announced they would fire the ten cited for contempt and hire no one they believed to be a communist. What did this produce?

The Internal Security Act of 1950 ordered Communist-action organizations to register with the Justice Department, and the Communist Party complied by registering as the law directed.

In 1953 McCarthy's subcommittee investigated the books held in United States government information libraries overseas, and his aides Roy Cohn and G. David Schine toured them. What did the State Department do?

On February 9, 1950 in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy said: 'I have here in my hand a list of 205 - a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party.' What did he never do?

At a televised hearing on June 9, 1954, McCarthy named a young lawyer in Army counsel Joseph Welch's firm as a former member of a leftist lawyers' guild. Welch replied: 'Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?' What did the exchange do?

A resolution adopted on December 2, 1954 declared that the conduct of the Senator from Wisconsin 'is contrary to senatorial traditions and is hereby condemned.' What action was this?

On March 9, 1954, Edward R. Murrow ended his remarks on Senator Joseph McCarthy with the words: 'We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.' What was this?

Alger Hiss was tried twice, and in January 1950 a jury convicted him. What was he convicted of, and why that charge?

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted in 1951 and executed at Sing Sing Prison on June 19, 1953. What were they convicted of?

The ten Hollywood writers and directors cited for contempt of Congress in 1947 served prison sentences once their appeals were exhausted in 1950.

Who was the government's central witness against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, testifying that he had passed atomic information from Los Alamos through them?

After McCarthy's subcommittee turned its search for subversives on the Army, the Army charged that he and his counsel Roy Cohn had pressured it for favors for a drafted former staffer, G. David Schine. What did that dispute produce?

The Army-McCarthy hearings ran 36 days in 1954 and were carried live on television to an audience estimated in the tens of millions. What did the broadcasts do to McCarthy's public standing?

A select committee chaired by Senator Arthur Watkins recommended that the Senate act against McCarthy over his conduct toward its committees, and the Senate voted on December 2, 1954. What was the vote, and what followed?