Red Scare by Heidi Paz Ruiz

Summary Key

heidi_pazruiz26 — 2024-03-05 18:09:45 UTC

The paranoia about the internal Communist threat. What we call the Red Scare- reached a fever pitch between 1950 and 954, when Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, a right-wing Republican, launched a series of highly publicized probes into alleged Communist penetration of the State department, the White House, the Treasury, and even the US Army.

Senator Joe McCarthy

heidi_pazruiz26 — 2024-03-05 18:11:08 UTC

Deportations

jasmine_catachocastillo26 — 2024-03-06 18:02:01 UTC

Thousands of Russians were deported without a formal trial. Most were sent to the soviet union which was a new nation that the older generation of immigrants had never lived in, and that the white Russians wanted to overthrow.

New York city Rent Strikes

heidi_pazruiz26 — 2024-03-07 01:03:36 UTC

Rent increases and housing shortage, Failure to provide heat and hot water, Use of monthly, oral unwritten leases.

1919 United States Anarchist Bombings

heidi_pazruiz26 — 2024-03-07 01:08:18 UTC

A series of bombings were carried out or attempted by Galleanists from April through June 1919. The targets included anti-immigration politicians, anti-anarchist officials, and prominent businessmen, as well as a journalist and a church. Almost all of the bombs were sent by mail.

heidi_pazruiz26 — 2024-03-07 01:10:21 UTC

heidi_pazruiz26 — 2024-03-07 01:12:58 UTC

First Red Scare

32 RED SUSPECTS JAILED ON ORDERS OF MAYOR EDWARDS

heidi_pazruiz26 — 2024-03-07 01:24:55 UTC

32 purported radicals 7 of them being Women, today were in the city jail facing investigation as to their Citizenship.

heidi_pazruiz26 — 2024-03-07 01:29:10 UTC