X-Nico

3 unusual facts about red scare


Pennsylvania v. Nelson

The Smith Act was written after the Pennsylvania Sedition Act, but both were created during the Cold War, during the age of Joseph McCarthy and his House Unamerican Activities Committee; this was the time of the “Red Scare,” where McCarthy investigated everyone, because anyone could be a communist.

Red menace

Red Scare or Red Menace, a term starting during the Cold War era to describe the Soviet Union or an "international communist conspiracy"

Yorkton Film Festival

In the era of the Red Scare, the arrival of two Soviet diplomats in small town Saskatchewan caused a bit of a stir.


Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge

During the Red Scare, Civitan International was an active financial supporter of the Freedoms Foundation.

George Weston Anderson

He served as an active judge for 13 years and is remembered for dissenting when the court upheld some of the convictions arising from the Red Scare of 1919-20.

Greg Mitchell

Mitchell's Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon Vs Helen Gahagan Douglas--Sexual Politics and the Red Scare, 1950 (1998) studies an era in California politics as it reflected and influenced national issues in the post-World War II years.

Industrial Workers of the World philosophy and tactics

Historically the IWW was accused of outright damage to property — for example, getting the blame for causing wheat field fires in a book of fiction by Zane Grey, published in 1919 at the height of the red scare.

Journey to Freedom

The anti-Communist tone is comparable to other films of the Red Scare: I Married a Communist (1949), The Red Menace (1949) and Big Jim McLain (1952).

Logos and uniforms of the Cincinnati Reds

The growth of McCarthyism and the advent of a new Red Scare in the 1950s gave the Reds' owners concerns that the club's traditional nickname would be seen as an association with Communism.

Rudy Minarcin

They had adopted the name in 1954, at a time when the McCarthyism emotions made a change of the club name seem advisable.


see also

La Plebe

Again produced by Billy Gould and engineered/ mixed by Jamie McMann, the album was released on Red Scare Records in the U.S., and on Gould’s own record label Koolarrow Records in Europe.

Maribeth Monroe

In Chicago, she appeared in the 2004 revue Red Scare, directed by Mick Napier, where the character "Sassy Gay Friend" originated, and she would later appear as Desdemona in one of the character's online incarnations.

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

Later, the director comes up against the Red Scare of the 1950s, the Kennedys, the wave of change in the 1960s, and his hatred of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.