Red Scare

causing the Cold War, but the relationship between the United States and Soviet Union had been hostile way before this and having to struggle with the communism in “The Red Scare” (Gerdes, Barbour, and Cothran 10). The history events that we see and hear of now were often caused by civilians, but during this time, Cold War and the Red Scare, it seemed as if both sides of this fight thought they were doing the right thing. In the end it did not bring what they wanted it to, it just brought death…

women of witchcraft. A wave of hysteria spread throughout colonial Massachusetts and the painful legacy of the Salem witch trials would endure for centuries. The Crucible was inspired by the Red Scare, which were accounts of real treason and communism within the American government. Both The Crucible and the Red Scare represented the American government, and showed the actions the government took. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, group hysteria shows that people in the town can play with…

The Red scare and The Crucible (Arthur Miller), both are tied with each other because many articles are compared to one another and are as if history is repeating itself, just in different ways and for different reasons. The Red Scare was the hunt for communists in America and The Crucible was the hunt of witches in Salem. I am sure there are plenty of things that both The Red Scare and the Crucible had in common but I will go through many articles and compare the two to see why they are…

During American history, the red scare event that parallels that of the witch trials in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. The Red Scare was an event when the United States was scared of communism and Soviet spies in America. In the Salem witch trials people were afraid of witchcraft the same way that Americans were of communism. Parallels are infallible between the Crucible by Arthur Miller and the Red Scare in American history. During the witch trials in The Crucible, people are forced to either…

Known as McCarthyism it was named after Senator Joseph. The word Scare referred to the fear of communism within the United States. The communists was categorized as the "Reds" due to the Soviet Flag. The second Red Scare started in 1947, during the Cold War and after WorlD War 2. Red Scare affected Americans because many werre worried the communists were testing nuclear bombs, in preparation to a potential nuclear war. Not…

After the Bolsheviks overthrew the Romanoff dynasty in 1917, they instituted communism as the national ideology. Communism is a political theory that advances a classless society where, where property is owned by the government with each person being employed by and paid by the government according to their abilities and need, as deemed necessary by the government (Source). A heightened awareness and concern of communism began to evolve that was legitimate in theory but paranoid in practice.…

climate in the United States during the 1950s? In particular, how do you explain McCarthyism and the Red Scare? Can you think of any modern parallels to these events, when fear and paranoia threatened basic American liberties? Elaborate. As cold war intensified in the late 1940s to 1950s the threats posed by the communists in the US was named the Red scare (named after the red soviet flag).The Red scare orchestrated a great number of actions that had an enduring effect to the greater U.S society…

it says something about its depth in American history. So, it’s time to understand Communism and its impact on American society and politics. However, since Communism has a fairly long history, we are going to mainly focus on the 1920s Red Scare. The 1920s Red Scare was – in the most basic terms – the fear of Communism in 1920s America. What caused this fear? The answer is a recurring theme in American history…

The Red Scare and The Iron Curtain, what do these two things have in common? Communism, the red scare was the fear that communism was going to penetrate the United States and the Iron curtain was a boundary during the Cold War to separate communists and non-communists. The reason for these scares and divides were because of the problems and fears associated with communism. China began to realize that and introduced capitalism. China has been making gains that got them to where they are today but…

Did Joseph McCarthy create a “Red Scare” Joseph McCarthy gained attention through his rants about how the United States Government was corrupt and secretly housing Communism to soon blend with mainstream democracy in the United States. McCarthy provided little or no evidence to persecute said government officials, but just solely because of his fear of Communism. Joseph McCarthy used the “scare tactic” to turn the heads of American citizens from post-war recovery, to the spread of…