Red Scare

Fear can lead to many things; it can be the driving factor to terrible occurrences, paranoid investigations, and sudden tension. A devastating example of fear causing negative feats is the Red Scare and the Rosenberg Trial. Americans were afraid of the Soviet Union because they felt threatened and didn’t want communism, and in an act of fearful behavior, sentenced to death two innocent people of involvement with the Soviets. This ended up being pointless, as they were never actually in cahoots…

Introduction: During the First World War Americans began to develop a fear communist subversion within American society, this fear became known as the Red Scare. This fear of communism was compounded during the Cold War because of the paranoid beliefs of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who developed a set of anit-communism ethos known as McCarthyism. The purpose of McCarthyism was to minimize the communist threat to America by accusing and detaining suspected communists by claiming that they were a…

the Bolshevik Revolution of the 1910s, the United States experienced the First Red Scare, characterized by a pervasive dread of a similar proletarian uprising. Social unrest and a string of bombings attributed to communists and anarchists made this fear worse. The U.S. government responded with the 1918 Sedition Act and the Palmer Raids, aimed at deporting immigrants with radical political views. The Second Red Scare, characterized by the threat of global communism during the Cold War,…

became known as the Red Scare. The Red Scare led to a range of actions that had a thorough effect on U.S. government and society. Federal employees were analyzed to determine whether they were sufficiently loyal to the government, and the House Un-American Activities Committee, as well as U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, investigated allegations of insurgent elements in the government and the Hollywood film industry. The climate of fear and oppression caused from the Red Scare finally began to…

The Crucible > The Red Scare “...141 people imprisoned, 19 people executed, and two more died from other causes directly related to the investigations.” (Callis, “The Aftermath of The Salem Witch Trials in Colonial America”). The Communist Red-Scare (Began in September 1945 when the U.S. and Canada thought that the Soviet Union was going to infiltrate our government with the idea of obtaining information about the atomic bomb.) and The Crucible/Salem Witch Trials (A wave of…

The Red Scare was the result of a major fear within America. Americans felt the effects in their personal lives. Many supposed communists and communist sympathizers saw their whole life and their life works destroyed in front of their eyes such as the lost of friends or family members. It destroyed many families: brothers accused brothers, father accused sons. They were fired from their jobs. Friends stopped talking to their falsely accused friends. However the climate of fear and repression…

guilty”, a principle set forth by the founder fathers is fundamental for the protection of human and civil rights. However, “guilty until proven innocent” seemed to be the new slogan the judicial branch abided by during a dark time known as the red scare. The red scare can best be defined as a widespread series of actions by individuals and organizations whose, “intentions were to frighten Americans with false and highly exaggerated charges of Communist subversion for the purpose of political,…

The Red Scare affected the American view on immigration because they wanted to place more limits on it. They did this by using the Immigration Act of 1924. This enforced a quota system that controlled the amount of people entering the country. It limited the annual immigration to 164,447 people (“Immigration Act, 1924”). Americans believed that Russians were the ones who were trying to spread their communist beliefs, so that is why they didn’t want many foreigners entering the country. Also,…

“The Red Scares were fears when government officials and other groups promoted a fear of communism in the United States” (article 1) The Red Scares brought fear over the United States when communism was brought to topic by groups of people that were angered by it, and eventually the government. These rumors of communism brought change in the US, and constant fear and preparation was a result. “Forty-four out of the 48 state governments in the United States passed laws between 1949 and 1955…

Imagine living in a world where everyone believes lies and condemns people for the lies. This is what it is like if you live in the United States during the Red Scare. The Red Scare is a time period in which Americans were afraid of communist spies infiltrating their method of capitalism. These claims, rumors, are made primarily by Joseph McCarthy. His accusations began to accuse well known people and destroy their reputations. Brinkley states, “Hiss, who was now out of government, denied the…