House Un-American Activities Committee
an investigative committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Originally created in 1938 to inquire into subversive activities in the U.S., it was reestablished in 1945 as the Committee on Un-American Activities, renamed in 1969 as the Committee on Internal Security, and abolished in 1975. Abbreviation: HUAC
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How to use House Un-American Activities Committee in a sentence
Some never forgave his early backing for Joseph McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee, support that Kennedy later deeply regretted.
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British Dictionary definitions for House Un-American Activities Committee
the former name of the Internal Security Committee of the US House of Representatives: notorious for its anti-Communist investigations in the late 1940s and 1950s
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