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Bookmark or Share- Red Scare: Cold War, McCarthyism & Facts | HISTORYThe Red Scare was hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, which intensified in the late 1940s and...
- McCarthyism and the Red Scare | Miller CenterThe 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 Wisconsin, a right-wing Republican, launched a series of highly publicized probes.
- McCarthyism - WikipediaMcCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of alleged communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s. [1]
- United States - Red Scare, McCarthyism, Cold War | BritannicaUnited States - Red Scare, McCarthyism, Cold War: Truman’s last years in office were marred by charges that his administration was lax about, or even condoned, subversion and disloyalty and that communists, called “reds,” had infiltrated the government.
- Red Scare | Definition, U.S. History, & Causes | BritannicaRed Scare, period of public fear and anxiety over the supposed rise of communist or socialist ideologies in a noncommunist state. The term is generally used to describe two such periods in the United States. The first occurred from 1917 to 1920, amid an increase in organized labour movements,
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