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In 1949, anti-communist fear, and fear of American traitors, was aggravated by the Chinese Communists winning the Chinese Civil War against the Western-sponsored Kuomintang, their founding of the Communist China, and later China intervenes (October–December 1950) in the Korean War (1950–1953) against U.S. ally South Korea.
The Rocky Mountain News asked the Attorney General to cease his alerts: "We can never get to work if we keep jumping sideways in fear of the bewiskered Bolshevik." [153] The Boston American assessed the Attorney General on May 4: [154] Everybody is laughing at A. Mitchell Palmer's May Day "revolution".
Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in Russia, and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, when the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in an intense rivalry.
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]
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]
Barnard, John, American Vanguard: A History of the United Auto Workers, 1935–1970 (2004) Cochran, Bert. Labor and Communism, The Conflict that Shaped American Unions (Princeton University Press, 1977) Eidlin, Barry. "Why is there no labor party in the United States? Political articulation and the Canadian comparison, 1932 to 1948."
An FBI agent once feared the classic Christmastime movie featured communist propaganda, prompting him to file complaints.
This opposition to communism led to what is known as a Red Scare; Americans were told they should fear the potential influence of communism. [2] Such anti-communist sentiments were made evident through statements such as the Truman Doctrine, which declared that the United States would provide assistance to nations threatened by authoritarianism ...