The First Red Scare

Many historians have studied red hunting after World War II between 1919 and 1920, but some have investigated the ongoing influence of anti-red hysteria in the 1920's . Secondly the victim of red hunting, mainly due to peace in terms of female movement usually more specific. The opposition to the conservatism after the war from the right - wing organization led to pacifism. The group responds to these attacks by addressing women's liberalism international, peace, and alliance members: this research document deals with questions.

A red panic took place twice in American history. The first red panic (1919-1921) was caused by Americans fearing that the Russian Bolshevik Revolution will spread to the United States. The second red panic continued with domestic and foreign attention events such as the Rosenberg trial, the Communist Party's victory in the Chinese civil war, the creation of the "iron curtain", the emergence of the Soviet nuclear weapons capability, the Korean war and so on. Government officials and citizens are afraid of nuclear war with the Soviet Union and the United States is nervous about the use of Soviet spies in the government. Because many Soviet agents and sympathizers have infiltrated the United States government during World War II, their fears are unfounded.

It was intense like the first red panic, it was short-lived, small compared to the second red panic during the Cold War. After the Second World War, the Soviet Union became a powerful world power and became an American opponent. Russia is strong and highly coordinated - for example, it is well tuned for the development of nuclear weapons, the American spies, and the competition with the universe. Therefore, the original Bolshevik instigator was replaced by a Russian spy as the main anti-Russian stereotype. In the middle of the 20th century American popular culture has drawn Russians as a mean strange threat. Age of McCarthy - Weak sympathy for communism or even condemned sympathy may cause you to blacklist for life, a Russian spy convicted in the United States will be executed - Russia is a trick, Secret, synonymous with spy and conspiracy

Communism is not a new US concern in the 1950s. After the First World War, the country first experienced red hunting ("red" Communist slang). 1917 Since the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia set up resistance to the ideal for him and his cruel genocide about 9 million new Communist regime, the dictator Vladimir Iliichi Ulyanov (Lenin). Lawmakers are determined to stop communism through the implementation of the Incitement Act, so that "spy acts" spread to the United States, all this mess is the Americans are anxious. The first feature of the US government's red harvest to find brutal doubt Communism and attack