1920's History Question.. 10 Points Awarded (:?

Question

Can someone please "briefly" describe to me what the Red Scare is? I don't want 5 paragraphs copied from Wikipedia, i know how to do that myself. I just need to summarize what the Red Scare briefly is. And what lesson did the United States learn from it?

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Answer 1

Shortly after the end of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the (first) Red Scare began in America. At the time labor unions were becoming popular. The unions were changing the traditional relationships between the average man and those of wealth. The violence that occurred during labor disputes coupled with several anarchist bombings and increasing racial tensions in urban areas such as New York City, Chicago, and St.Louis created a fear that a Bolshevik style revolution was at hand. Dissidents were jailed, free speech curtailed, and other civil liberties were impinged. The Red Scare ended in the early 1920s as abruptly as it had started.

Answer 2

The Russian revolution caused concern of something equivalent happening in the industrialized nations–the Red Scare. Labor activists found that they had a great deal in common, at least theoretically, with communist revolutionaries, and industrial leaders minimized the differences. The communists were all too willing to infiltrate the labor movement, and the big companies were all too willing to talk about reducing subversion when what they wanted to do was to break unions.

I don't know that the United States learned much. We are still manipulated by many of the same forces.

Answer 3

Organized labor's advances in unionization contributed to the Red Scare - America's industrialists were terrified that the Bolshevik revolution would come to America through organized labor groups like the International Workers of the World.

Answer 4

Well I hate to tell you, but the Red Scare was more during the 50's and 60's. More specifically, after World War II, which ended in 1945, the U.S. and former U.S.S.R. (Now Russia) were involved in the "Cold War", meaning basically a stalemate.

After World War II, the U.S. was interested in expanding its form of Capitalist Democracy, and the U.S.S.R. was interested in expanding its form of Socialist Communism. When Cuba's dictator, put in place by the U.S., Fidel Castro, decided to switch sides to the Russians, the U.S. threatened an invasion. Cuba then allowed Russia to base nuclear weapons pointed at the United States, which resulted in the "Red Scare".

Answer 5

The Russian revolution occurred in Mar. 1917. In Oct. (Nov. if you like) 1917, the Bolsheviks overthrew the Provisional government and established the Soviet Union. Their aim was socialism in one country, then the rest of the world.

The U.S. government about 1920 under President Woodrow Wilson and Attorney General Palmer was afraid of a communist revolution here. So there was a rounding up of immigrants and deportations to prevent that.

The U.S. has been slow to learn from this, because there was the McCarthy scare of the 1950's.

True to your wish, I will not cite wikipedia. You can do that for yourself.

Answer 6

Well... I do briefly remember it's the time period of extreme fear of communisim in America... AND I DIDINT LOOK IT UP I DID THIS OF MEMORY.

Answer 7

the Cold War and the Nuclear threat from Communist countries, or the fear that communism would take over the world and prevail over democracy.