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= THE RED SCARE =

this term was to indicate the period of strong Anti-communism in the united states from 1919-1920's.

After the Bolsheviks took over the Russian Empire in 1917, much of the world feared the revolution would spread causing the red scare The red scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism this started out when all of the strikes went on and made people frightened about communists were agreeing to start a revolution. thousands of innocent people were taken to jail because of their political beliefs or organizations that they were a part of.

The media, which was so important in the fifties, picked up on McCarthy's "blacklists" and ran them in the papers. this went on during the second red scare

In places like Germany and Italy this almost actually did occur, but failed for various reasons. In the US, however, 99.9% of historians will tell you that this was never even a remote possibility. The tradition of calling subversives communists lifted its ugly head during the 50′s when senator McCarthy lead the republican leadership to cleanse much of the government of democratic office holders and even some representatives because they were ‘in league with Moscow’. anarchist bombings