In 1987, over lunch with the blacklisted director Martin Ritt, Karl Malden professed surprise that Ritt could not find it in himself to forgive Malden’s old friend and mentor, Elia Kazan. Sure, Kazan had named names before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), but that was more than 30 years in the past.

Hollywood Ten, in U.S. history, 10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in October 1947, refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations, and, after spending time in prison for contempt of Congress, were mostly …

The HUAC was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having fascist or communist ties.

Martin Dies Jr.

This brief letter and enclosure were addressed to Georgia Representative John Wood, the chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).

Column: Yes, Elia Kazan named names, then made ‘On the Waterfront’ to justify his treachery. In “On the Waterfront,” Rod Steiger’s character tries to dissuade his brother, played by Marlon Brando, from finking on a corrupt union boss. Elia Kazan made the film to justify his own informing on fellow communists.

The House of Representatives votes 346 to 17 to approve citations of contempt against 10 Hollywood writers, directors, and producers.

7 Artists Whose Careers Were Almost Derailed by the Hollywood Blacklist

• Dalton Trumbo. Dalton Trumbo in 1957.
• Pete Seeger. Pete Seeger in 1955.
• Orson Welles. Orson Welles in 1942.
• Lena Horne. Lena Horne in 1950.
• Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin in character as “The Tramp.”
• 6. Lee Grant. Lee Grant in 1977.
• Dashiell Hammett.

He and director Otto Preminger gave barred screenwriter Dalton Trumbo credit for their respective 1960 movies, “Spartacus” and “Exodus.”

The term blacklist was first used in the early 1600s to describe a list of those who were under suspicion and thus not to be trusted, he explained. We took a stand at Maven, changing blacklist to blocklist.

The second Red Scare occurred after World War II (1939–45), and it was popularly known as “McCarthyism” after its most famous supporter, Senator Joseph McCarthy.

The Cold War began after the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945, when the uneasy alliance between the United States and Great Britain on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other started to fall apart.

Pages in category “Infantry weapons of the Cold War”

• AA-52 machine gun.
• MAC-58.
• AK-47.
• AK-63.
• AK-74.
• AKM.
• ALFA M44.
• AMD-65.

In June 1950, the first military action of the Cold War began when the Soviet-backed North Korean People’s Army invaded its pro-Western neighbor to the south. Many American officials feared this was the first step in a communist campaign to take over the world and deemed that nonintervention was not an option.

The Novikov Telegram As a result, the USSR needed to secure its buffer zone in Eastern Europe. These two telegrams set the scene for the Cold War in Europe. The USSR would attempt to dominate Eastern Europe and spread communism where possible.

The U.S. entered the Vietnam War in an attempt to prevent the spread of communism, but foreign policy, economic interests, national fears, and geopolitical strategies also played major roles.

Vietnam would be divided by a demilitarised zone (the DMZ), with the French withdrawing their forces from Vietnam north of the zone and the Viet Minh withdrawing their forces from the south. Before long Diem’s authoritarian regime was challenged by local communists, backed by the regime in North Vietnam.