First Red Scare (jan 31, 1917 – dec 2, 1920)
Description:
A period of hysteria after World War I over the possible spread of Communism to the United States; aroused by the Russian Revolution (1917), the large number of Russian immigrants in the United States, and a series of terrorist bombings in 1919, it resulted in the denial of civil liberties, mass arrests and deportations, and passage of the restrictive Immigration Act of 1920.Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 31, 1917
dec 2, 1920
~ 3 years and 10 months