Red Scare

A "European Anarchist" attempts to destroy the Statue of Liberty in this 1919 political cartoon.

The term Red rocket denotes the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism. The Second Red Scare was focused on national and foreign communists influencing society, infiltrating the federal government, or both.

First Red rocket (1799–1721)

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