Red Scare
Postwar ideological panic
The Red Scare refers to two periods of anticommunist hysteria in the United States.
The first followed World War I and the Russian Revolution (1917–1920), targeting suspected radicals and immigrants.
The second, in the late 1940s and 1950s, became associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations and Hollywood blacklists: Her grandfather lost his teaching job during the Red Scare. (Lowercase red scare describes any such panic.)
Red Scare congressional committee
- blacklistRecord of prohibited entities
- loyalty oathSworn commitment to faithfulness
- congressional hearingsCommittee sessions investigating matters
- perjuryCriminal courtroom dishonesty
censure · executive privilege · subversive · un-American · internal security · fellow traveler · pinko · security clearance
Cold War's political divide
- containmentPreventing hostile expansion
- Truman DoctrinePolicy opposing communist expansion
- domino theoryContagious political collapse belief
- Korean War1950s peninsula conflict
Soviet Union · nuclear threat · Berlin Wall · Cuban Missile Crisis · arms race · CIA · KGB · espionage
Philosophy rejecting state authority
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- BolshevismLenin's revolutionary communist ideology
- Russian RevolutionSoviet founding upheaval
- labor unrestEmployee-employer conflict
Short theatrical news film
- broadcastTransmitted media signal
- cartoonAnimated or humorous illustration
- caricatureExaggerated comic depiction
- sloganeeringReliance on pithy phrases
HUAC
Red Scare congressional committee
- blacklistRecord of prohibited entities
- loyalty oathSworn commitment to faithfulness
- congressional hearingsCommittee sessions investigating matters
perjury · censure · executive privilege · subversive · un-American · internal security · fellow traveler · pinko · security clearance · Hollywood blacklist
Iron Curtain
Cold War's political divide
- containmentPreventing hostile expansion
- Truman DoctrinePolicy opposing communist expansion
- domino theoryContagious political collapse belief
Korean War · Soviet Union · nuclear threat · Berlin Wall · Cuban Missile Crisis · arms race · CIA · KGB · espionage · Sputnik
anarchism
Philosophy rejecting state authority
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- BolshevismLenin's revolutionary communist ideology
- Russian RevolutionSoviet founding upheaval
labor unrest · immigration · Sacco and Vanzetti · sedition · radical
newsreel
Short theatrical news film
- broadcastTransmitted media signal
- cartoonAnimated or humorous illustration
- caricatureExaggerated comic depiction
sloganeering · sensationalism · yellow journalism · distortion
- Cold War ConflictsKorean War, Vietnam War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Berlin Wall, Bay of Pigs
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, Civil War, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
- 1920s AmericaCharles Lindbergh, Jazz Age, Spirit of St. Louis, flappers, transatlantic flight
- 1950sEisenhower, poodle skirt, Elvis Presley, Rosa Parks, baby boom
- 1950s AmericaEisenhower, McCarthy, McCarthyism, suburbs, Korean War
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis