Anti communists
The Red Scare in the United States started in 1919, sparked by the Russian Revolution. There was also the Second Red Scare in the 1950s, driven by figures such as Joseph McCarthy.
Anti-Communist paranoia, commonly known as The Red Scare, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, was the driving force behind the 1950s "witch hunts."
Communism
The Red Scare was people being worried about communist take over of the United States. There was one Red Scare in the 1920s and one in the 1950s.
The Red Scare was the promotion of the fear of communism and radical left politics spreading widely.
McCarthy
Senator Joe McCarthy was the leader of the anti Communist crusade of the 1950s in the US.
The Red Scare in the United States started in 1919, sparked by the Russian Revolution. There was also the Second Red Scare in the 1950s, driven by figures such as Joseph McCarthy.
No. He served in the Senate and led the "Red Scare" investigations in the 1950s. He died in 1957.
The Crucible is a tale of the Salem witch hunts during the days before the founding of the United States. The story, by playwright Arthur Miller, is an allegory on Joseph McCarthy and the hunt for Communists in the 1950's. The play is intended to convey that McCarthy, like the witch hunters, was persecuting innocent people and profiting from public hysteria. It was later suggested by Soviet archives (and the data of the Venona Project) that some of McCarthy's targets were in fact guilty of being enemy agents.
Anti-Communist paranoia, commonly known as The Red Scare, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, was the driving force behind the 1950s "witch hunts."
McCarthy.
The second Red Scare
The red scare ended when McCarthy was sensured.
Leading the Red Scare.
The term Red Scare is a fear of communist or other left leaning people or organizations, either internal or external. It first came to prominence during the Cold war era and the McCarthy trials of the 1950s.
Joseph McCarthy. :D