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Bomb
Authorities discovered a plot for mailing 36 bombs to prominent members of the U.S. political and economic establishment -
Communist
there was widespread hysteria over labor strikes and protest movements, which were blamed on communists and other radicals. -
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The Red Scare
The Red Scare was a time of fear of communism taking over the world. This hysteria lead to persecution of anyone seen as unloyal to America. Everyone was becoming paranoid, seeing deadly threats in the smallest of things. Within the November of 1918 and mid-1920, the country experienced strikes, race riots, and an incapacitated president. Many people were deported, a large amount with barely any evidence.
Although it did not last long, the Red Scare showed the ugly side of America. Anti-foreign -
The first red scare
The first Red Scare began following the Bolshevik Russian Revolution of 1917 and the intensely patriotic years of World War I as anarchist and left-wing social agitation aggravated national, social, and political tensions -
Red Scare Video
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Democratic Party
In July 1920, Palmer’s promising Democratic Party bid for the U.S. presidency failed. -
The Sacco-Vanzetti Case
On April 15, 1921, two employees of a shoe warehouse in South Braintree, Massachusetts, were murdered during a robbery. The police investigating the crime arrested two Italian immigrants named Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. -
on April 9, 1927, protests erupted around the country.
on April 9, 1927, protests erupted around the country. -
Execution
the men were executed on Aug. 23, 1927. They claimed they were innocent until the moment of their deaths. -
President Truman
On March 21, 1947, President Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) issued Executive Order 9835, also known as the Loyalty Order, which mandated that all federal employees be analyzed to determine whether they were sufficiently loyal to the government. -
The Second Red Scare
The second Red Scare occurred after World War II (1939–45), and was popularly known as "McCarthyism" after its most famous supporter, Senator Joseph McCarthy -
Joseph McCarthy
McCarthyism coincided with increased popular fear of communist espionage consequent to a Soviet Eastern Europe, the Berlin Blockade (1948–49), the Chinese Civil War, the confessions of spying for the Soviet Union given by several high-ranking U.S. government officials, and the Korean War. -
McCarthy Focus
McCarthy shifts anti-Communist focus from the State Department to the Army -
2nd Red Scare
The Second Red Scare profoundly altered the temper of American society.