The great Red Scare followed World War I after the concern about the Bolshevic revolution in 1917. This event frightened many Americans who feared that radicals in the United States might try to follow the Bolshevic example. Rumors began circulating and these ideas became an exaggerated scare in 1919 . Events that kept people in the United States thinking and talking about the communist threat included a total of 30 bombs found by postal workers addressed to many prominent …showed first 75 words of 2454 total…

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