Question 1
How did Senator Joseph McCarthy finally contribute to his own downfall?
a. He charged that fellow senators were communist dupes.
b. He took on the U.S. Army in front of millions of television viewers.
c. He appeared on the Senate floor in an obviously inebriated state.
d. He publicly stated that President Eisenhower was a communist sympathizer.
Question 2
Richard Nixon, Alger Hiss, Julius Rosenberg, and Ethel Rosenberg all gained national attention during the late 1940s and early 1950s because they were all associated with
a. civil rights infringement trials.
b. Cold War spy trials.
c. Korean War profiteering trials.
d. stock price manipulation trials.