Answer: 1938
When was the House Un-American Activities Committee formed?

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) popularly dubbed the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and from 1969 onwards known as the House Committee on Internal Security was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. The HUAC was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private …

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) popularly dubbed the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and from 1969 onwards known as the House Committee on Internal Security was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. 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. When the House abolished the committee in 1975 its functions were transferred to the House Judiciary Committee. The committee's anti-communist investigations are often compared to (and confused with) those of Joseph McCarthy who as a U.S. Senator had no direct involvement with the House committee. McCarthy was the chairman of the Government Operations Committee and its Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the U.S. Senate not the House.

Precursors to the committee Overman Committee (1918-1919) The Overman Committee was a subcommittee of the committee on the Judiciary chaired by North Carolina Democratic Senator Lee Slater Overman that operated from Septem…

Precursors to the committee Overman Committee (1918-1919) The Overman Committee was a subcommittee of the committee on the Judiciary chaired by North Carolina Democratic Senator Lee Slater Overman that operated from September 1918 to June 1919. The subcommittee investigated German as well as Bolshevik elements in the United States. This committee was originally concerned with investigating pro-German sentiments in the American liquor industry. After World War I ended in November 1918 and the German threat lessened the committee began investigating Bolshevism which had appeared as a threat during the First Red Scare after the Russian Revolution in 1917. The committee's hearing into Bolshevik propaganda conducted February 11 to March 10 1919 had a decisive role in constructing an image of a radical threat to the United States during the first Red Scare. Fish Committee (1930) U.S. Representative Hamilton Fish III (R-NY) who was a fervent anti...

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