#Red-Scare
Events indexed under #Red-Scare — 36 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960-01-01 | U.S. Chamber of Commerce Reaches 2.5 Million Members Through Anti-Communist Mobilization U.S. Chamber of Commerce · American Legion | confirmed | |
| 1957-06-17 | Yates v. United States Limits Smith Act Prosecutions, Supreme Court Begins Retreat from McCarthyism Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · Oleta O'Connor Yates · Communist Party USA · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1954-12-02 | Senate Votes 67-22 to Censure Joseph McCarthy Ending Four Years of Terror Joseph McCarthy · Ralph Flanders · Arthur Watkins · Margaret Chase Smith | confirmed | |
| 1954-09-01 | Communist Control Act Bans Party Members from Union Leadership, Weaponizing Anti-Communism Against Labor U.S. Congress · Dwight D. Eisenhower · House Un-American Activities Committee · American Federation of Labor · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1954-06-09 | Joseph Welch Confronts McCarthy with Have You No Sense of Decency in Army Hearings Joseph Welch · Joseph McCarthy · Roy Cohn · G. David Schine | confirmed | |
| 1954-04-12 | AEC Security Hearing Against Oppenheimer Begins Targeting Manhattan Project Director J. Robert Oppenheimer · Lewis Strauss · Gordon Gray · J. Edgar Hoover · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1953-06-19 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed at Sing Sing, Cold War's Most Controversial Death Penalty Case Julius Rosenberg · Ethel Rosenberg · Roy Cohn · Irving Saypol · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1952-01-01 | Hollywood Blacklist Reaches Peak with Over 300 Industry Professionals Banned Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals · Studio executives · House Un-American Activities Committee · American Legion · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1951-06-04 | Dennis v. United States Supreme Court Upholds Smith Act Convictions, Criminalizes Political Advocacy Fred Vinson · U.S. Supreme Court · Eugene Dennis · Communist Party USA · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1951-03-29 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Convicted of Espionage in Controversial Red Scare Trial Julius Rosenberg · Ethel Rosenberg · David Greenglass · Ruth Greenglass · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1950-09-23 | McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Codifies Red-Scare Surveillance Apparatus Patrick McCarran · Harry S. Truman · Subversive Activities Control Board · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1950-09-23 | McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Requires Communist Registration Pat McCarran · Karl Mundt · Harry Truman · Hubert Humphrey · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1950-09-01 | State Loyalty Oaths Spread as California Passes Levering Act, Requires Public Employee Pledges California Legislature · Earl Warren · University of California Board of Regents · American Civil Liberties Union | confirmed | |
| 1950-08-01 | State Department Revokes Paul Robeson Passport for Political Views and Soviet Support Paul Robeson · State Department · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 1950-06-22 | Red Channels Published, Launching Broadcasting Blacklist and Corporate "Smear and Clear" Racket American Business Consultants · John G. Keenan · Kenneth M. Bierly · Theodore C. Kirkpatrick · +6 | confirmed | |
| 1950-06-01 | Margaret Chase Smith Delivers Declaration of Conscience Against McCarthy Witch Hunt Margaret Chase Smith · Joseph McCarthy · Wayne Morse · George Aiken · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1950-02-09 | McCarthy Wheeling Speech Claims 205 Communists in State Department Launching Witch Hunt Joseph McCarthy · Harry S. Truman | confirmed | |
| 1950-01-01 | Corporate Anti-Communist Network Coordinates Labor Suppression Through NAM, Chamber of Commerce Infrastructure National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · American Legion · J.B. Matthews · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1949-11-15 | CIO Expels United Electrical Workers and Farm Equipment Workers, Beginning Purge of Communist-Led Unions Congress of Industrial Organizations · Philip Murray · Walter Reuther · United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1948-08-03 | Alger Hiss Testifies Before HUAC as Whittaker Chambers Accuses Him of Espionage Alger Hiss · Whittaker Chambers · Richard Nixon · House Un-American Activities Committee | confirmed | |
| 1947-11-25 | Waldorf Statement Launches Hollywood Blacklist, Studio Executives Pledge to Fire Hollywood Ten Motion Picture Association of America · Eric Johnston · Louis B. Mayer · Eddie Mannix · +17 | confirmed | |
| 1947-10-20 | HUAC Hollywood Hearings Begin, Studio Executives Cooperate as "Friendly Witnesses" House Un-American Activities Committee · J. Parnell Thomas · Robert E. Stripling · Walt Disney · +9 | confirmed | |
| 1947-10-01 | Federal Loyalty Program Implementation Creates Permanent Political Background-Check Regime Harry S. Truman · Seth Richardson · Civil Service Commission · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1947-06-23 | Anti-Communist Loyalty Oaths and Taft-Hartley Act Weaponized to Crush Labor Movement Robert A. Taft · Fred A. Hartley · CIO · AFL · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1947-03-21 | Executive Order 9835 Establishes Federal Loyalty Program - 5 Million Screened, Guilt Presumed Harry S. Truman · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Civil Service Commission · House Un-American Activities Committee | confirmed | |
| 1945-01-03 | HUAC Made Permanent Standing Committee, Institutionalizes Political Persecution U.S. House of Representatives · John Rankin · Martin Dies · House Un-American Activities Committee | confirmed | |
| 1940-06-28 | Smith Act Criminalizes Advocacy of Government Overthrow, Enables Political Persecution Howard W. Smith · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Franklin D. Roosevelt | confirmed | |
| 1938-05-26 | Dies Committee (HUAC) Formed by Conservative Democrats to Discredit New Deal as Communist Infiltration Martin Dies Jr. · John Garner · U.S. House of Representatives · Franklin D. Roosevelt | confirmed | |
| 1927-08-23 | Sacco and Vanzetti Executed After Seven Years of Biased Proceedings Nicola Sacco · Bartolomeo Vanzetti · Alvin Fuller · A. Lawrence Lowell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1925-06-08 | Supreme Court Upholds Criminal Anarchy Conviction While Expanding Due Process Edward Sanford · Benjamin Gitlow · U.S. Supreme Court · Oliver Wendell Holmes | confirmed | |
| 1920-08-23 | Sacco and Vanzetti Arrested in Red Scare Climate of Anti-Immigrant Hysteria Nicola Sacco · Bartolomeo Vanzetti · Frederick Katzmann · Webster Thayer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1920-05-28 | 'Report Upon the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice' Repudiates Palmer Raids Felix Frankfurter · Roscoe Pound · Zechariah Chafee · National Popular Government League · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1920-01-02 | Palmer Raids Escalate with Coordinated Mass Arrests Across 33 Cities Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer · J. Edgar Hoover · Department of Justice · Acting Secretary of Labor Louis Post | confirmed | |
| 1919-11-07 | Palmer Raids Begin: Attorney General and J. Edgar Hoover Arrest 6,000 in 36 Cities, Deport 249 on "Soviet Ark" A. Mitchell Palmer · J. Edgar Hoover · U.S. Department of Justice · Emma Goldman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1919-08-01 | Hoover Named to Lead Justice Department Radical Division, Origin of Permanent Political Dossier System J. Edgar Hoover · A. Mitchell Palmer · Department of Justice · General Intelligence Division | confirmed | |
| 1886-05-04 | Haymarket Affair Bombing and Police Violence Trigger Massive Anti-Labor Backlash Chicago Police Department · Albert Parsons · Lucy Parsons · August Spies · +4 | confirmed |