The+Red+Scare.

=** Shortly after the end of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, **= =** the Red Scare took hold in the United States. **=

====** The nation was gripped in fear. Innocent civilians were jailed for expressing their views, civil liberties were ignored, and many Americans feared that a Bolshevik-style revolution was close at hand. **====

====** The two main Union and Socialist groups that stood out at the time were the International Workers of the World, which was led by "Big" Bill Haywood, and the Socialist party that was led by Eugene Debs. Both groups were in the minds of many Americans very unpatriotic. **====

====**On September 9th, the Boston police force went on strike. A panic that "Reds" were behind a strike took over Boston despite the lack of any radicalism on the part of the striking police officers. Although the city experienced primarily looting and vandalism, newspapers around the country were huge into writing yellow journalism headlines for these policemen. Stories told of massive riots, reigns of terror, and federal troops firing machine guns on a mob.**====

** The Red Scare quickly ran its course and, by the summer of 1920, it was largely over. **
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