The Red Scare
Author: Alley
Place and time: 1920s, post WWI America Prior Knowledge: Americans were afraid that the Bolshevik revolution might become the progenitor to the spread of communism and anarchism, potentially reaching the United States, threatening the values many Americans had. Audience: The American public Reasoning: To propagate that Europeans carried undesirable beliefs with them to the United States. Significance: Presents anarchists as a threat to which what we hold dearest most, our liberty |