The Red Scare

After World War II, only two world superpowers remained: the United States of America and the Soviet Union. The contradictory political regimes of the democratic United States and the communist Soviet Union were believed to be mutually exclusive which increased bitterness between them. Inevitably, the apparent tension between the two superpowers led to the Cold War which lasted about 45 years. It was war without bloodshed or battle, instead it was a metaphorical war where the U.S and the Soviet Union increased their weapons and fought for political influence, one always wanting to excel or maintain within the range of the other. The United States’ desperate need to contain the communist political ideology from spreading any further and meet the Soviet Union’s increased development of nuclear weapons led to the their involvement in the Cold War. The impact the Cold War had on life during the 1950’s and 1960’s can be measured through the creation of the House Un-American

The Red scare was a series of witch hunts for suspected communist sympathetic members of congress and public office holding Citizens who were supposedly “Red” this lasted from (1919-1920) started by the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. During the first war the Red Scared was represented the widespread concern that Americans had developed over the fear of communist subversion within society. The American people went into a mass hysteric frenzy over the news and many

The Cold War changed American society by introducing both foreign and domestic fear into the lives of Americans. It brought neighbor against neighbor, and a trembling thoughts to all Americans. It gave an upper-hand to the men in the branches of Federal Government, and especially to the HUAC; moreover it

The Cold War was a pivotal time in American history. To a greater degree than most other wars, the Cold War affected American society in unfathomable and profound ways. More specifically, American culture transformed immensely during this time. From a constant state of anxiety, to changes in media and the arts, to McCarthyism; the Cold War fervently affected the quality of life, personal expression, and American politics. Predominantly, the Cold War inflicted fear and apprehension within the American people that was so overpowering that it affected every aspect of their lives and overall American culture.

The Red Scare took place in the late 1940’s and early 50’s during the Cold War and was an event that occurred in the U.S. The Red Scare was the episode of Americans being afraid of the spread of communism which led America to take desperate actions to stop it from spreading such as McCarthyism. One of the many things America did was make it mandatory for federal employees to be analyzed to tell if they were a communist. Another was the HUAC (House of Un-American Activities Committee)

The Red Scare lasted from 1947 to 1957. The Red Scare was a fear driven phenomenon brought on by the growing power of communist countries in the wake of the Second World War. Most significantly the Soviet Union was feared because of their major role in the communist party. Many in the U.S. feared that the Soviet Union and its allies were planning to forcefully spread communism around the globe. By overthrowing both democratic and capitalist countries as it went. With the Soviet Union occupying much of Eastern and Central Europe, many in the U.S. perceived their fears of communist expansionism as confirmed. The U.S. also feared that communist agents had infiltrated the federal government. A massive suspicion broke out on who was a part of the

A "Red Scare" is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker revolution and political radicalism. The Second Red Scare was focused on national and foreign communists influencing society, infiltrating the federal government, or both. As World War II was ending, a fear-driven movement known as the “Second Red Scare” began to spread across the United States. Americans feared that the Soviet Union hoped to spread communism all over the world, overthrowing both democratic and capitalist institutions as it went. This “Scare” as caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution. (The Red Scare was Anti-Communist.) The postwar Red Scare is often called “McCarthyism,” a name derived from one of the era's most notorious anti-Communists, Senator Joseph McCarthy. Yet the anti-Communist crusade of the late 1940s and 1950s both in

Due to Senator McCarthy a word arose which is very synonymous with the Second Red Scare, McCarthyism. McCarthyism by definition is the practice of publicizing accusations of political disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence or the use of unfair investigatory or accusatory methods in order to suppress opposition. McCarthyism was also known as the witch hunt of communist during the Second Red Scare.

From Godzilla to aliens living in outer space, people have been fearful of the unknown. Well, the Red Scare brought fear that could somewhat be equated to the fears people have of Godzilla to aliens living in outer space. But, the Red Scare was mot brought about through the fear of aliens but of human beings, being fearful of human beings. The Red Scare came to light in 1919s and 1920s. Senator Joseph McCarthy started this mass epidemic of fear. He claimed to have a list of citizens and elected officials that were impartial to the communist party. He used his position with the HUAC to spread his rhetoric across the U.S. Many people lost their jobs, homes and businesses thanks to Joseph McCarthy. At the very end of this saga, everyone

The Red Scare had major effects on the government and society. These major effects led to having

A.The Red Scare The US as the most powerful capitalist country in the world always has been scared by communism and anarchism and people were and are still today conditioned by the media or the political parties to say no to those idea. The Red Scare is the spreading of the fear of the rise of communism and anarchism ideas by pro-capitalist politicians. During the 1920’s a Red Scare spread quickly throughout the US because of the Russian revolution that happened in march 1917 and turns Russia into a communist country. Before, the US weren’t that preoccupied by the rise of communism in Europe because it only concerned small countries. Propaganda spreading anti-Communism and anarchism messages begins shortly after the russian revolution.

The Red Scare dominated America beginning in 1947 with the Iron Curtain, Berlin Blockade, and many others. In all these instances, people feared about national security both with the situation abroad and right at home as well. When the Soviets successfully detonated an atomic bomb, it coincided with China becoming another Communist threat and widespread hysteria in America. Anyone that spoke or acted out differently was labeled a communist. A great example was

Leading up to the election of 1960, the United States was in a state of utter disarray. Like a pandemic disease, hysteria impetuously swept across the country on an unprecedented scale. The root of the mania stemmed from the unresolved disagreements between Soviet Russia and the U.S. immediately after the disassembly of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich in World War II. As disputes intensified, the two most powerful nations of the period became engaged in a war of deception and secrecy that came to be known as the Cold War. Moreover, the nuclear age had arrived, and with it, a weapon that would be used for not only physical devastation, but also psychological warfare. Although the previous president, Dwight Eisenhower, mollified both international tensions with the U.S.S.R and domestic communist fears during his incumbency, he was far from reconciling the nations due to their long-standing hostilities. Americans would live the rest of the decade anticipating the impending nuclear destruction. It was not until the beginning of a new decade, the nineteen-sixties, in which an ambitious John Fitzgerald Kennedy would imbue determination and hope within a country—technologically falling behind to its enemy—to literal and metaphorical new heights. How could a man, whom “untested on the world stage [lead] the nation at a time of threatening Cold War peril” ? (John…Elections). The American populace was

After world war one peace looked inevitable. Everyone was wrong about this because a few years later world war two erupted. This great war was supposed to be the war to end all wars. In this war it was crystal clear who was the good side and who was the bad side. Almost everyone figured that if the bad side was defeated then peace couldn’t possibly escape us again. We defeated the evil Axis powers, but of course another serpent would rear its ugly head from behind the curtains. This period of a “cold war” after world war two has become one of the most complex and studied eras since America’s birth. This state of paradoxes, paranoia, and public disorientation has only ended a few years ago, but its

The Cold war occurred around the end of the 19th century, it tightened the already strangling hold around the US and USSR (Russia) relationship. The two great nations came within seconds of launching an all out nuclear war on each other; the scene was observed by all and feared by all. The writer Joseph Masco says “It is important to recognize that this technical capacity to deliver overwhelming violence to any part of the world in mere minutes has relied on structures of the imagination as well as on machines”. In that time millions of citizens witnessed the tremendous power of a nuclear bomb going off in Japan; the simple thought of an all out war between the world’s two biggest countries put enough fear to stop time. Masco also argues “But if the bomb has been crucial to constituting US ‘superpower’ status, it has also produced a complex new domestic affective political domain”. After the US dropped the atom bomb on Japan, the nation was feared because of the massive power one bomb holds within itself. Now that two major countries harnessed the power of the bombs shook the very world to its core. If the US and USSR launched a full scale nuclear war everything would be leveled on the face of the earth. The cold war destroyed many people’s hold on sanity and reality because of the power of the nuclear bombs that were created; the shear strength just one holds can take a nation off the map. The Korean War pushed the bar on psychological warfare even further, for the whole