which was triggered by a Communist take over of Russia. The Red scare never really stopped

since it's first appearance, but occurred again in the 1950's. It was a label given to the actions of

legislation, race riots, and the hatred and persecution of revolutionary objectors during that

After the war formally ended on November 18, 1918, there was an ideological war still

going on in the US. It was a war which prompted mass paranoia and caused what would be

known as the Red Scare, beginning in 1919 and ending in 1921. First period of red scare began

in June 1919, when the newly appointed US attorney general, A. Mitchel Palmer, was waken up

by the explosion on his door steps. A bomber tripped over something, blowing himself up. It was

later found that additional bombs had exploded on the doorsteps of other high-ranking

government officials in at least 8 more cities. This was the start of the first Red Scare throughout

the country. The next day's New York Times newspaper reported that the attack was Bolshevik

result of this panic traveling through American society, a series of bombings occurred. The

before him concerning the immigrants. Even the Secretary of Labor himself, William B. Wilson

The Red Scare finally came to an end after a series of actions by high government

Communist ideas during the first Red Scare rather then in the 1950's. After WWI was over, many

strike, which occurred in February, consisted of 60,000 coal mine workers. In that September,

these bombings. Attorney General Palmer took advantage of the widespread panic of the public

foreign radicals were to all be deported.

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