red scare

I’m wondering what would French politics look like in the 1920s and 1930s following the tried-and-true scenario of Germany going red in the aftermath of the First World War. For the sake of the scenario, let’s say the Spartakusaufstand and similar risings are avoided in 1919/1920 and the...

In OTL, Robert Welch is remembered for having been an inflammatory and conspiratorial anti-communist who founded the ”John Birch Society“ back in ‘58 and said numerous insane things like Eisenhower being a communist, The Civil Rights movement being a ploy by The Soviet Union to create a “Soviet...

Short question, what would happen if during the second Red Scare Joseph McCarthy attacked a Trotskyist, a Russian emigrate, or anyone else with equal disdain for Moscow who then counteraccuses McCarthy of being a Stalinist mole trying to silence dissidents west of the iron curtain? Why didn't...

It seems pretty safe to say that the U.S and the Soviet Union were made more extreme by each other's existence and political hostility. It is, after all, harder to focus the propaganda on tyranny when one is backing several dictatorships as well and working (somewhat) with franco. But, say that...

What would Happen if Palmer died in the attempt to kill him by Luigi Galleani. How would this affect the first red scare, the Palmer raids, and American domestic politics.

Ever so often, I will see threads posted asking how large the populations of certain countries such as Germany and Russia might have gotten without the First World War. However, what would the global demographic trends have looked like without that conflict? After all, this is all interrelated -...

Okay, so what if the Bolsheviks won the Russian Civil War, but the Red Guard lost the Finnish Civil War? Finland and Russia's histories would both be very different if the other side won their respective civil war, but how would they be different? Would there be a much larger Red Scare in...

In 1946, at the suggestion of his friend the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, actor Orson Welles ran for the U.S. Senate for Wisconsin - his home state. Despite Wisconsin's Republican lean and the fierce opposition of the business community, Welles mounted a campaign as a Democrat. But...

In OTL, the US in the late 40s was rapidly disarming and moving to a nuclear-focused vision for her military. When the Korean war broke out in June of 1950, the US lacked enough ships to blockade the Korean coast and the army had to salvage tanks from WW2 battlefields and museums to equip their...

Even before he became Eisenhower's VP, Richard Nixon was an extremely powerful and influential politician. As a Congressman he prosecuted Alger Hiss and proposed the notorious Mundt-Nixon Bill. Thomas Dewey's opposition to the bill helped him win the Republican primaries in 1948, but he...

During the 1952 campaign, Nixon was accused of benefitting from a secret slush fund that allowed him to live beyond his means. Many in the press called on him to resign from the ticket, and about half of Eisenhower's aides agreed. Ultimately Eisenhower decided against this as he felt it would...

OTL, conservatives led the Red Scare, with Joe Mcarthy as its prime figurehead. Now what if New Deal liberals such as FDR, Truman, Johnson, Kennedy and Humphrey led the Red Scare during the 1950s? How would American society fare as a whole? How would Vital Center Liberalism fare? I've talked to...

I've seen in numerous lists/timelines/etc. in a world where the Nazis won the figure of Henry Wallace being used as a left-wing McCarthy as part of a "Brown scare" against fascists. While this is obviously a fun idea, turning the guy against the Cold War into its strongest advocate in an event...

1. Let's say China does not go full communist during the Civil War. Maybe the KMT saves All of China, save for Manchuria, which is communist. The Korean War goes like OTL. 2. Then, Vietnam goes OTL or just unstable in the 1960s (you can diverge if you want). AFAIK, the Soviets were the main...