Red Scare and Mcarthyism.
Promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism
First red scare: about worker revolution
Second red scare focused on national communists
FIRST RED SCARE- Provoked by mounting fear and anxiety that a Bolshevik revolution in America was imminent(ready to take place)
McCarthyism- http://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-figures/mccarthyism1.htm
making accusation of disloyalty without evidence
Americans concerned high officials were communist
Took advantage of mounting fear
Charged people with act of subversion
Second Red Scare
-Americans feared the spread of communism around the world.
-Thought the Soviet Union would spread communism all the way over to the US
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