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Red Menace 3) The Red Scare came to its boiling point by the works of numerous anarchists who wanted a “violent overthrow” of the government. In April 1919, 29 bombs were sent through mail to important American leaders such as J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. The bombs were defused except for one sent to Senator Thomas Hardwick of Georgia, it was detonated and injured his wife and her maid.

3) The Red Scare was the pre cursor to the second red scare in the United States. During the Red scare anti-communism ran through the country very heavily. The people suspected of communism were called “Reds” and were targeted by their fellow countrymen and government. The largest concentration of persecution and violence came to be called the palmer raids of 1920.

3) Throughout World War I, an abundant patriotism was raging around the United States. It was sparked by “propagandist” George Creel, chairman of the United States on Public Information. When American soldiers fought the “Huns” abroad we had people working on the home front as well. Anyone who didn’t help at home or German-Americans, immigrants, and communists were suspected of treason.