Why was the 1950's called the Red Scare?? What does the 'Red' stand for???

Question

The era of Joseph McCarthy and Communism is called the "Red Sacre" , why??? *****I need to have a web or published source please. . .

Answer 1

Mc Carthy was convinced that there were Communist Russian agents infiltrated in many walks of American life. He and his supporters tried to scare people into thinking that these agents were undermining our government or plotting a Communist takeover, and he organized many hearings in which people were pressured or coerced into naming suspected Communist sympathisers. Communist agents did exist but Mc Carthy blew them grossly out of proportion, and many reputations were ruined.

Red symbolized the Communist party, the flags of Soviet Russia and Communist China are mostly red, and the Soviet army was called the "Red Army".

Answer 2

The Republicans were in the minority and trying hard to end a long, long run of the Democrats in power. Even though we were in peacetime, there were fears that Communism was taking over the world. The Committee on un-American activities had Richard Nixon and Eugene McCarthy holding hearings on American spies. Television was new and the "red hunt" magnified itself on the tube. FBI Director Hoover stated he estimated 100 in 10,000 Americans was a communist. The reason it was called "red" was we were eyeball to eyeball with the political communist, the Russians over the Berlin Blockade. We neglected China after WWII and the Chinese Red Army took command.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Back during the Russian Revolution, two of the contending organizations were the White Russians and the Bolshevics who were called the Red Russians. The Bolshevics were hi-jacked by the communist shortly after the end of the revolution. Thus the term Red came to mean Russian communist and finally just communist.

Answer 5

It was during the Joseph McCarthy days when he was a senator. He went after Americans that he thought were either communist or communist sympathizers. He did a good job at scaring the country into getting regular people to wonder if their friends or neighbors could be communists.

Answer 6

From Wikipedia.org:

The term "Red Scare" has been retroactively applied to two distinct periods of strong anti-Communism in United States history: first from 1917 to 1920, and second from the late 1940s through the late 1950s These periods were characterized by heightened suspicion of Communists and the fear of widespread infiltration of Communists in U.S. government.

Answer 7

Red was the color of Communist Russia wasn't it?
The Reds were then a nickname for Russians? - scared of Soviet aggression. Making the "Red scare" a term used for other so-called communist aggression at the time.

Answer 8

The Russian flag was red with a gold sickle and star. the term red was used to describe Russian communists.

Answer 9

Red denotes communism of the Soviet variety, derived from the color of the Russian revolutionaries flag and carried over into the USSR flag.

Answer 10

RED was just a term used to describe Communism.