The Red Scare was a period during the 1950's when American citizens experienced mass hysteria which caused people to begin a witch hunt, alluding to the Salem witch trials, searching for communists within the country.
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A period in the United States' history when everyone was so caught up in the containment of communism and investigated people within their community for communism. Even people in the government were suspected of being communist spies.
The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led many to fear that immigrants, particularly from Russia, southern Europe, and eastern Europe, intended to overthrow the United States government; The end of World War I, caused production needs to decline and unemployment to rise.
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