Background of the Red Scare

The Red Scare took place after World War 2. During the 1940's several news events caught the public's attention with the trial convicting, and the subsequent execution of, Ethel and Julius Rosenburg for espionage for the Soviet Union. These events influenced opinions on American's safety and connected the fear of a nuclear attack with the communist party in the United States of America, thus creating the second Red Scare in the United States in which many were in fear of communists taking over. This is the period where McCarthyism bent the minds of many and propaganda spread around America like wildfires, either trying to spread light on the mass scare or trying to widen it with fear.