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Red Scare: Cold War, McCarthyism & Facts | HISTORY

The Red Scare was hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the US during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States.

Red Scare | Definition, U.S. History, & Causes | Britannica

Red Scare, period of public fear and anxiety over the supposed rise of communist or socialist ideologies in a noncommunist state.

McCarthyism / The "Red Scare" | Eisenhower Presidential Library

McCarthyism / The "Red Scare" ... Senator Joseph R. McCarthy was a little-known junior senator from Wisconsin until February 1950 when he claimed to possess a ...

McCarthyism and the Red Scare | Miller Center

The paranoia about the internal Communist threat—what we call the Red Scare—reached a fever pitch between 1950 and 1954, when Senator Joe McCarthy of ...

Red Scare - Wikipedia

A Red Scare is a form of moral panic provoked by fear of the rise, supposed or real, of leftist ideologies in a society, especially communism and socialism.

Sacco & Vanzetti: The Red Scare of 1919–1920 - Mass.gov

During the Red Scare of 1919-1920, many in the United States feared recent immigrants and dissidents, particularly those who embraced communist, socialist, or ...

Red Scare | The Free Speech Center

Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008. Haynes, John. Red Scare or Red Menace? American Communism and ...

America and the Red Scare - Historical Society of Pennsylvania

The Red Scare was a period during the 1940s-50s when Americans became anxious that Communists had infiltrated the home front.

The Postwar Red Scare - Bill of Rights Institute

Haynes, John Earl. Red Scare or Red Menace?: American Communism and Anticommunism in the Cold War Era. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996. Oshinsky, David.

Video: Red Scare | Definition, Causes & Impact - Study.com

Propagating the Red Scare, the fear of communist subversion, McCarthy charged individuals in the federal government, Hollywood and general public as being ...

The Red Scare | A Visual Guide to the Cold War

The Red Scare was the fear of Communist subversion of the US government, and the campaign against alleged Communist sympathizers in the United States.

Historical Context: The Post-World War I Red Scare

... Red Scare | The end of World War I was accompanied by a panic over political radicalism. Fear of bombs, Communism, and labor unrest produced a “Red Scare ...

Why was (/is) the red scare such a big thing? : r/history - Reddit

The original Red Scare in America began before the Soviets had consolidated their rule, it was in the midst of the Russian Civil War and before ...

The Red Scare - UMKC School of Law

Shortly after the end of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the Red Scare took hold in the United States. A nationwide fear of communists, ...

McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare

John Earl Haynes, Red Scare or Red Menace? American Communism and Anticommunism in the Cold War Era (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996); and Haynes ...

First Red Scare | United States history [1917–1920] - Britannica

The first Red Scare began toward the end of World War I. It was fueled in part by a surge in activity among organized labour alongside anxiety stemming from ...

What Was the Red Scare? - Spyscape

The Second Red Scare. The second of three Red Scares occurred at the beginning of World War II (1939-41) and accelerated the growth of anti-Communism, ...

McCarthyism - Wikipedia

McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of ...

The Red Scare - Privacy SOS

The Red Scare ... For most of the 20th century, the “war on communism” ebbed and flowed, and sometimes hit riptide as it did during the late 1940s and 1950s. When ...

The Red Scare - Atomic Archive

The political conflict known as McCarthyism or the "Red Scare" began around 1949, soon after the Soviets tested their first atomic bomb.