RED+SCARE,+the+fear+of+communism

=BETTER RED THAN **DEAD.** = 



During WWI, the American boys were fighting the "huns" abroad many Americans fought them at home. Anyone who wasn't as patriotic as possible-- "slackers," German-Americans, immigrants, communists-- was a suspect. It was out of this "patriotism" that the Red Scare  took hold.

The so-called "Red Scare"  refers to the fear of communism in the USA. A nationwide fear of communists, socialists, anarchists, and other dissidents.

Many Americans were scared of the communists. Especially when they had overthrown the royal family in Russia in 1917 and murdered them in the following year. In 1901, an anarchist had shot the American president (**McKinley**) dead. The fear of communism increased when a series of strikes occurred in 1919. The police of Boston went on strike and 100,000’s of steel and coal workers did likewise. Communists usually always got the blame.

The Red Scare quickly ran its course, and by the summer of 1920, it was practically over.

