The Red Scare

For many years from 1947 to 1957, the fear of communism made the American voice very stable. As a country that is said to have achieved enlightenment, the United States succumbed to a huge hysteria of red panic, but it hardly suffered resistance. The Communist Party's "Red Army" and the Communist Party's sympathy "Pink" are everywhere and are often persecuted by the House Non-American Activity Committee (also called the incorrect acronym HUAC). The sole crime of these people is the sensitivity; they are looking at the truth behind the terrible confusion.

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.

When comparing the American "red panic" of the 1950s with the Salem Witch trial done in the United States at the end of the 17th century, some of the similarities are obvious. Both of these things create hysteria by evoking people's irrational fears. "Red Panic" is the fear of Communism in the 1950s. This is actually the second "red panic". The first thing that happened was the reference to the fear of what the Bolshevik Revolution takes place in America. The second "red panic" is also known as "McCarthy" for its most famous supporters, Senator Joseph McCarthy. Many people were concerned about communism after the Second World War. Then, things like Soviet Spy, Berlin Blockade, Iron Curtain, and Chinese Cultural Revolution joined this fear.