red scare

Noun

Meaning

a period of general fear of communists

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

scare red alert red notice code red code pink condition red red tag red code level red high alert full alert maximum alert reed alert situation red hair-trigger alert

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Hypernyms

panic scare

Examples

But some of those academic leaders and student groups have pushed back, comparing the rising paranoia about stolen research to the worst days of the Red Scare era. Source: Internet

Heinlein also repeatedly makes explicit the analogy between the mind-controlling parasites and the Communist Russians, echoing the then prevailing Second Red Scare in the United States. Source: Internet

As the Red Scare progressed, the association with communism concerned some members as well as supporters and Hay, a dedicated member of the CPUSA for 15 years, stepped down as the Society's leader. Source: Internet

By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Blacklists are frightening relics of an intolerant past like the Red Scare of the Fifties or the paranoid Nixon White House’s “enemies list” of the early Seventies…. Source: Internet

In the United States, the Second Red Scare caused Congressional hearings by both houses in Congress and anti-communism was the prevailing sentiment in the United States throughout the decade. Source: Internet

With the emerging "Red Scare" of the late 1940s, Ivens was forced to leave the country in the early months of the Truman administration. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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