I don't know about first and second, but i do know the red scare was a great fear of communists in the 1940s or 50s. Poeple lost their jobs or were sent to prisons due to little suspicions.
Both nationwide panics occurred in an immediate postwar period, when the public was calling for a "return to normalcy." In both cases, constitutional rights were severely abused in the process of...
Following the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and the establishment of the Soviet Union, the Communists made efforts to promote revolutions in Europe and the US. In 1919, President Wilson appointed A....