Second Red Scare

(noun)

This event ccurred after World War II (1939–45), and was popularly known as "McCarthyism" after its most famous supporter and namesake, Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthyism coincided with increased popular fear of communist espionage consequent to a Soviet Eastern Europe, the Berlin Blockade (1948–49), the Chinese Civil War, the confessions of spying for the Soviet Union given by several high-ranking U.S. government officials, and the Korean War.

Related Terms

Examples of Second Red Scare in the following topics:

  • McCarthyism

    • "McCarthyism" is a term arising from the paranoia of the Second Red Scare in the U.S. from 1950-54, which was fed by Joseph McCarthy, a U.S.
    • Many factors contributed to McCarthyism, some of them extending back to the years of the First Red Scare (1917–20), inspired by Communism's emergence as a recognized political force.
    • The term has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from 1950 to 1956 and characterized by heightened fears of communist influence on American institutions and espionage by Soviet agents.
    • While Communism was expanding across Europe and Asia, the United States entered an era of paranoia known as the Red Scare.
    • McCarthy played on Communist fears in the U.S. during the Second Red Scare.

  • Red Scare

    • Postwar patriotism and fears of communism after the Russian Revolution produced the Red Scare in the U.S. in 1919-1920.
    • The Red Scare of 1919–1920 had its origins in the hyper-nationalism of World War I and was marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism.
    • The Red Scare effectively ended in the middle of 1920 after Palmer's predicted May Day uprising passed without incident.
    • A Red Scare depiction of a "European Anarchist" attempting to destroy the Statue of Liberty.
    • Describe how the Red Scare contributed to anti-labor sentiment, the Palmer Raids, and the Sedition Act of 1918.

  • The Great Steel Strike

    • Second, the federation would create staff-driven unions run from national AFL headquarters.
    • The post-war Red Scare had swept the country in the wake of the Russian revolution of October 1917, and the steel companies took advantage of the change in the political climate.
    • Identify the contributing factors to the Great Steel Strike of 1919, and how steel companies took advantage of the post-war Red Scare to end the strike.

  • Setbacks for Unions

    • A second major labor dispute broke out on July 1, 1922, when 400,000 railroad workers and shop men went on a national strike over hourly wages and the length of the work week.
    • The campaign also depicted unions as "alien" to America's individualistic spirit with NAM and other employer groups discrediting unions through Red Scare tactics that linked them to Communism.

  • War Propaganda

    • First Red Scare depiction of a "European Anarchist" attempting to destroy the Statue of Liberty.

  • The Decline of Labor

    • In addition, some employers, like the National Association of Manufacturers, used Red Scare tactics to discredit unionism by linking them to Communist activities.

  • Georgia and South Carolina

    • In addition to looking for Loyalist support, Britain also hoped to "scare" Americans back to the crown by raising fear of massive slave revolts.
    • Following the victory at Charleston, General Clinton turned over British operations in the South to his second-in-command, Lord Cornwallis.

  • The Rise of Wilson

    • There was talk of war and some argument within the cabinet for a show of naval force, which Wilson rejected; after diplomatic exchanges the scare subsided.
    • Narrowly reelected in 1916, Wilson centered his second term on World War I and the subsequent peace treaty negotiations in Paris.

  • African and Asian Origins

    • The second route went through the present-day Bab-el-Mandeb Strait on the Red Sea (at that time, with a much lower sea level and narrower extension).
    • These early humans crossed the Red Sea about 70 millennia ago, populating the rest of the world in the process.
    • Today at the Gate of Grief, the Red Sea is about 12 miles (20 kilometers) wide, but 50,000 years ago it was much narrower and sea levels were 70 meters lower.
    • This has been seen as evidence that humans may have crossed the Red Sea in search of food sources on new beaches.
    • There is some evidence that modern humans left Africa at least 125,000 years before present (BP) using two different routes: the Nile Valley heading to the Middle East - at least into modern Israel - and a second route through the present-day Bab-el-Mandeb Strait on the Red Sea

  • The Bourbons and the Redeemers

    • In the 1870s, the Southern Democrats exercised power through paramilitary organizations such as the White League and Red Shirts, especially in Louisiana and Mississippi, respectively.
    • The Red Shirts were also active in North Carolina.
    • More importantly, in a second wave of violence following the suppression of the Ku Klux Klan, violence began to increase in the Deep South.
    • In Mississippi, the Red Shirts formed as a prominent paramilitary group that enforced Democratic voting by intimidation and murder.
    • Chapters of paramilitary Red Shirts also arose in North Carolina and South Carolina.