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.

  • The Fifth Amendment

    • Under the Red Scare hysteria at the time of McCarthyism, witnesses who refused to answer the questions were accused as "fifth amendment communists".

  • Mass Hysteria

    • Hysteria is often associated with movements like the Salem Witch Trials, the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and Satanic ritual abuse, where it is better understood through the related sociological term of moral panic.

  • The Diplomatic Revolution

    • Frederick's actions were meant to scare Russia out of supporting Austria (the two countries had previously entered into a defensive alliance in 1746).
    • One year after the signing of the First Treaty of Versailles, France and Austria signed a new offensive alliance, the Second Treaty of Versailles (1757).
    • The red line marks the borders of the Holy Roman Empire.

  • 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.

  • Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?

    • My last pamphlet was sufficiently well received that I was not scared away from sending another one, and today I have the time and inclination to do so.
    • The thing which have triggered me this time is the "sleep(1) should do fractional seconds" thread, which have pestered our lives for many days now, it's probably already a couple of weeks, I can't even be bothered to check.
    • | people, who will have to spend at least 10 seconds reading |
    • The second part of my wish is more emotional.
    • For the people who have been lurking out there, scared away from participating by the gargoyles: I can only apologise and encourage you to try anyway, this is not the way I want the environment in the project to be.

  • Complement Fixation

    • The first component is an indicator system that uses combination of sheep red blood cells, complement-fixing antibody such as immunoglobulin G produced against the sheep red blood cells and an exogenous source of complement usually guinea pig serum.
    • When these elements are mixed in optimum conditions, the anti-sheep antibody binds on the surface of red blood cells.
    • Complement subsequently binds to this antigen-antibody complex formed and will cause the red blood cells to lyse .
    • The second component is a known antigen and patient serum added to a suspension of sheep red blood cells in addition to complement.
    • Sheep red blood cells and the anti-sheep antibody are then added.

  • Etruscan Ceramics

    • In its soft form, impasto clay can range from red to brown.
    • In true red-figure, the red areas were left free of slip.
    • In pseudo-red-figure painting, internal details were marked by incision, similar to the usual practice in black-figure vase painting, rather than painted on, as in true red-figure.
    • Even after true red-figure became the dominant style, some workshops continued to specialize in pseudo-red-figure painting into the fourth century BCE.
    • In the second half of the fourth century BCE, mythological themes disappeared from the repertoire of Etruscan vase painters.