THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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widespread arrests of military commanders
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The decline of powerful civil rights organizations
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The blacklisting of people in various industries
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Deportation of thousands of immigrants from Latin America
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Second Red Scare, which occurred immediately after World War II, was preoccupied with the perception that national or foreign communists were infiltrating or subverting American society and the federal government. The name refers to the red flag as a common symbol of communism.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the context of the 1940s and 1950s, a blacklist was a list of persons whose opinions or associations were deemed politically inconvenient or commercially troublesome, thereby subjecting them to either difficulty finding work or termination from employment.
Detailed explanation-3: -Enraged by the bombings, the United States government responded by raiding the headquarters of radical organizations and arresting thousands of suspected radicals. Several thousand who were aliens were deported. The largest raids occurred on January 2, 1920 when over 4000 suspected radicals were seized nationwide.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hollywood blacklist, list of media workers ineligible for employment because of alleged communist or subversive ties, generated by Hollywood studios in the late 1940s and ‘50s.