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Whatever the implications for civil and legal rights, the Gouzenko Affair was the first significant international incident of the Cold War [370] and marked the beginning of the Red Scare. [5] The exposure of Nunn May prompted increased investigation, which discovered such spies as Klaus Fuchs and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. [371]
Red Scare: FBI and the Origins of Anticommunism in the United States, 1919–1943. Museum Tusculanum Press. ISBN 978-8772895819. OCLC 963460662. Ellen Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1998. Landon R. Y. Storrs, The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left. Princeton, NJ: Princeton ...
United States in the Vietnam War (5 C, 26 P) Pages in category "Cold War history of the United States" The following 109 pages are in this category, out of 109 total.
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]
A list of serious and fun questions for kids to start conversation, make the family laugh or learn more about the children in your life. 122 questions for kids to get them to open up Skip to main ...
It came as a part of the US "Lavender Scare" witch hunts which contributed to and complemented the McCarthyist Red Scare. [4] From 1947 to 1961, the number of firings based on sexual orientation were far greater than those for membership in the Communist party. [ 5 ]
Anti-Chinese sentiment during the Cold War was largely the result of the Red Scare and McCarthyism, which coincided with increased popular fear of communist espionage because of the Chinese Civil War and China's involvement in the Korean War. [48]
The first Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included the Russian 1917 October Revolution, German Revolution of 1918–1919, and anarchist bombings in the U.S.