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Bookmark or Share- McCarthyism - WikipediaMcCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s. [1]
- Red Scare: Cold War, McCarthyism & Facts - HISTORYThe Red Scare was hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, which intensified in the late 1940s and ...
- Red Scare | Definition, U.S. History, & Causes | BritannicaRed Scare, period of public fear and anxiety over the supposed rise of communist or socialist ideologies in a noncommunist state. The term is generally used to describe two such periods in the United States.
- The Cold War Red Scare, McCarthyism, and Liberal Anti-CommunismIn 1958, radical anti-communists founded the John Birch Society, attacking liberals and civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. as communists. Although joined by Cold War liberals, the weight of anti-communism was used as part of an assault against the New Deal and its defenders.
- George F. Kennan ’25: The Ethics of Anti-CommunismNow how about anti-communism as a term relating to political forces within our own national life? Never strong in membership or even in voter support, the American Communist Party nevertheless gained considerable moral influence, especially in intellectual circles, during the 1930’s.
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