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The second Red Scare refers to the anticommunist fervor that permeated American politics, society, and culture from the late 1940s through the 1950s, during the opening phases of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
Sep 13, 2024 · The second Red Scare peaked in 1954 during the “McCarthy hearings,” 36 days of televised investigative hearings into alleged espionage within the U.S. Army. The hearings, led by McCarthy, exposed his sensational and truculent interrogation tactics.
McCarthyism, 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]
Apr 12, 2023 · The Second Red Scare, also known as McCarthyism, was a period of intense anti-communist hysteria in the late 1940s and early 1950s, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the U.S. government and military and accused numerous individuals of being communist or communist sympathizers, often without evidence.
Jun 1, 2010 · The 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...
The Second Red Scare, which occurred immediately after World War II, was preoccupied with the perception that national or foreign communists were infiltrating or subverting American society and the federal government.
Abstract. This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Second Red Scare, which stunted the development of the American welfare state. In the 1940s and 1950s, conservatives in and out of government used concerns about Soviet espionage to remove from public service many officials who advocated regulatory and redistributive policies ...
