Red+Scare

The Red Scare was during the time when McCarthy went about accusing people for communism. It was this fear that the United States had that the soon the world would turn out to be one whole big communist power. Josheph Mcarthey was a senator. During the Red Scare, more precisely The Second Red Scare, thousands of Americans were being accused of either being communist or participating in un-American activities. Usually, the people being accused were either government employees, educators, or those in the entertainment industry. There was never sufficient evidence to justify such accusations. More often then not, these accusations were exaggerated. The Red Scare began out of fear of the Cold War. It was also an attempt to rally Americans out of fear and hate. It left many families black listed in communities.

The first red scare came as a direct result of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia as well as the end of the first World War. The Americans developed a fear of communists, anarchists, as well as other dissidents, as they feared a similar uprising would occur within the United States. During the first World War, the “true” Americans were fighting the war for their country while those that seemed un-patriotic were deemed as “communist” and became suspects. All these false accusations were mainly imbued by a propagandist named George Creel. After the war had ended, and the United States underwent deep economic fallbacks, two main socialist groups were formed called the Wobblies led by Bill Haywood and the Socialist Party led by Eugene Debs. These two parties were held responsible for various strikes that went underway such as the Seattle shipyard strike and the strike of the Boston Police on September 9, 1919. Regardless as to whether these actions were created by true communists, those who participated in them were marked as denying their government and supporting communism. News of these events began circulating fast throughout America, contributing to the widespread turmoil created by it. As this hysteria continued to spread, the communist division of the justice department held about 200,000 cards outlining communist "activities" within this country, evidently leading to many false imprisonments; many as in thousands.Historian Levin B. Murray described the First Red Scare as "a nation-wide anti-radical hysteria provoked by a mounting fear and anxiety that a Bolshevik revolution in America was imminent--a revolution that would destroy property, church, home, marriage, civility, and the American way of life."[|[1]] However, by the summer of 1920 all seemed pretty back to normal, as the government realized there were much better things to do.
 * FISRT RED SCARE (1917-1920)**

The second time around this occurred because throughput this time period news started to spread very quickly about the trial, conviction and eventually execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, they had been accused of acquiring secret information that they had then told to the Soviet Union about some atomic bombs. After many people began to hear the news that all feared a future attack on them so this greatly affected their opinions, people worried that the Soviet Union would use atomic bombs. After this red scare the life of many Americans were affected along with the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union who were all on a mission to gain the most nuclear weapons. it was also more amplified by the Soviet oppression in Eastern Europe (beggining1946), the Berlin Blockade (1948-1949), the Chinese Civil War (1949) and the Korean War (1950-1953). As a result to all of this new fallout shelters began to be created, schools all took part in drills for safety.
 * SECOND RED SCARE (1947-1957)**

1 [|**^**] Levin, Murray B. (1971). //Political Hysteria in America: The Democratic Capacity for Repression//. Basic Books, pg. 29. [|ISBN 0-465-05898-1].