US II Period 5 Friday night Homework

Watch this short documentary about the Communist hunts in Hollywood.
Hollywood Blacklists

Answer the following questions

What happened to these actors?
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
What were they guilty of?
Were they doing anything illegal?
Were they doing anything that would hurt the American Government?
Why would other people encourage blacklisting these successful movie industry people?
How did this effect their careers?
Did most of their careers ever recover?
Do you think this was fair?
Do you think it was necessary?