The acronym "HUAC" stands for the House Un-American Activities Committee. It was a committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities by private citizens, public employees, and organizations suspected of having Communist ties
. The committee played a prominent role during the Cold War era in identifying and investigating Communist threats within the United States, often associated with the Red Scare and McCarthyism
