Study Guide for Gillon, The American Paradox, Chapter 3, pp. 57-68

· What does Gillon see as ironic, or contradictory, about how Americans tried to prove their loyalty and find and punish the disloyal? (says it in several places)

· Truman’s Federal Employee Loyalty Program

· Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss (and Richard Nixon); the Rosenbergs

· HUAC and Hollywood, blacklisting

· J. Edgar Hoover & the FBI, and surveillance

· Describe historians’ current debate over the nature of American communism.

· How was the Cold War reflected in Hollywood films?

· Examples of patriotism in local communities.

· How did the Cold War affect schools and universities?

· McCarthy’s Wheeling, WV speech (1950)

· How did McCarthy manipulate the press?

· How does Gillon explain the popularity of McCarthy?