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red scare

noun
a period of general fear of communists 
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Red Scare

The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This “scare” was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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