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Zorluk: KolayDomestic Cold War and the Second Red Scare

"There shall be established a loyalty investigation of every person entering civilian employment in any department or agency of the executive branch of the Federal Government. . . . The standard for the refusal of employment or the removal from employment in an executive department or agency on a grounds of disloyalty to the Government of the United States shall be that, on all the evidence, reasonable grounds exist for belief that the person involved is disloyal."

—President Harry S. Truman, Executive Order 9835, 1947

The policy described in the excerpt was primarily designed to address which of the following domestic concerns?

  1. Fears of communist infiltration and subversion within federal institutionsCevap
  2. B
    The need to mobilize civilian labor for direct military containment efforts in Europe
  3. C
    Demands to expand federal welfare benefits to reduce urban poverty
  4. D
    Calls to return to isolationism by dismantling foreign alliances

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Fears of communist infiltration and subversion within federal institutions
The correct answer is correct because Executive Order 9835 established the Federal Employee Loyalty Program in 1947. This program was created during the early years of the Cold War to address growing public and political anxieties that communist subversives and Soviet agents had infiltrated the federal government.

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1
Analyze the stimulus document, identifying the author (President Truman), the date (1947), and the mandate (loyalty investigations for federal employees).
The document shows a government initiative to check the political loyalty of federal civilian employees during the early Cold War.
Understanding the context of the document helps connect it to the corresponding historical period.
2
Evaluate the options to identify which domestic issue the loyalty investigations were designed to address.
The domestic concern was the Second Red Scare, specifically the fear that Soviet spies or communists had infiltrated the U.S. government.
Connecting the loyalty program to the Second Red Scare reveals the primary motivation behind Truman's executive order.

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The growth of domestic security programs and fears of subversion during the Second Red Scare.
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