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Only Yesterday Take Home Test 1) The Red Scare refers to the fear of communism in the USA during the 1920’s. There were over 150,000 anarchists or communists in USA in 1920 alone and this represented only 0.1% of the overall population of the USA. However, many Americans were scared of the communists especially as they had overthrown the royal family in Russia in 1917 and murdered them in the following year. The fear of communism increased when a series of strikes occurred in 1919. Throughout the 1920's and 1930's a culture developed within America which both feared and despised communism. Examples of the Red Scare are in 1901, an communist had shot the American president (McKinley) dead. The Boston police went on strike and 100,000’s of steel and coal workers did likewise. The communists usually always got the blame. A series of bomb explosions in 1919, including a unprofessional attempt to blow up A. Mitchell Palmer, America’s Attorney-General, lead to a campaign against the communists. On New Year’s Day, 1920, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison. Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. Very few people outside of those arrested complained about th