Red Scare Research Paper
From the U.S.S.R to the U.S.A
When news broke out that communism was in America, the public was astonished and feared what communism in the U.S. government would do. Many politicians baffled on why they were even trying to run for office. What they did not see coming was the popularity that would follow communism in the future. The fear did not come from the Communist Party itself, but the obsession of a small group of people with power to stop the Red Scare that spread rapidly in the America in both the early 1900’s and 1940’s.
Red Scare is the term given to the spread of communism that infiltrated the US government. But communists in America were the strange new kids on the block that nobody thought was going to gain popularity in the political …show more content…
Charles Emil Ruthenberg, was an American Marxist politician, or Scientific Socialism, is the name given to the body of ideas first worked out by Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), and a founder and long-time head of the Communist Party USA (“Red Scare”, 2010). The CPUSA grew into a 75,000 member party by 1938 with promises. The Great Depression was a big time for the CPUSA because they promised citizens very very little unemployment rates and everybody would have a roof over their heads and food on tables. When Hitler invaded Russia, they were pro war and encouraged Americans to be encouraged also (Storrs, 2015). During the Cold War, the communist party almost ended because of the government restrictions the US put on CPUSA.
Americans also felt effects of the Red Scare on a personal level. Thousands of alleged “pro-communist” citizens were harassed by law enforcement, and alienated from family and also fired from jobs. While a small number of those harassed and fired, only a small amount were affiliated with revolution's, most were wrongly accused (“Red Scare”, 2010). Many of the wrongly accused couldn’t do anything and their lives were ruined. So the citizens realized they had to help the FBI in order to stop the communism in
When news broke out that communism was in America, the public was astonished and feared what communism in the U.S. government would do. Many politicians baffled on why they were even trying to run for office. What they did not see coming was the popularity that would follow communism in the future. The fear did not come from the Communist Party itself, but the obsession of a small group of people with power to stop the Red Scare that spread rapidly in the America in both the early 1900’s and 1940’s.
Red Scare is the term given to the spread of communism that infiltrated the US government. But communists in America were the strange new kids on the block that nobody thought was going to gain popularity in the political …show more content…
Charles Emil Ruthenberg, was an American Marxist politician, or Scientific Socialism, is the name given to the body of ideas first worked out by Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), and a founder and long-time head of the Communist Party USA (“Red Scare”, 2010). The CPUSA grew into a 75,000 member party by 1938 with promises. The Great Depression was a big time for the CPUSA because they promised citizens very very little unemployment rates and everybody would have a roof over their heads and food on tables. When Hitler invaded Russia, they were pro war and encouraged Americans to be encouraged also (Storrs, 2015). During the Cold War, the communist party almost ended because of the government restrictions the US put on CPUSA.
Americans also felt effects of the Red Scare on a personal level. Thousands of alleged “pro-communist” citizens were harassed by law enforcement, and alienated from family and also fired from jobs. While a small number of those harassed and fired, only a small amount were affiliated with revolution's, most were wrongly accused (“Red Scare”, 2010). Many of the wrongly accused couldn’t do anything and their lives were ruined. So the citizens realized they had to help the FBI in order to stop the communism in