Red Scarein a sentence
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In 1919, during the First Red Scare, there were coordinated bombings and a foiled plot to send 36 bombs to prominent Americans.
Red Scare = period from 1917 to 1920 when there was fear that the Russian communist revolution would spread to the U.S.
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She remembered nuclear bomb drills at school during the time of the Second Red Scare.
Red Scare = a period of fear of communist attack between the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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- Speaking as if the POWs were old friends, he voiced his hope that the prisoners would help Japan fight the "Red Menace"—the Soviet Union, which had just seized Japan's Kuril Islands.† (source)
- He's been going up and down the western country, rousting people out and haranguing them about the Red Menace.† (source)
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