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| denotes two distinct periods of strong anti-Communism in the United States: the First Red Scare, from 1917 to 1920, and the Second Red Scare, from 1947 to 1957. The First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism. The Second Red Scare was focused on (national and foreign) communists influencing society or infiltrating the federal government, or both. |
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| attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport left-wing radicals, especially anarchists, from the United States |
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| Italian immigrants who were accused and convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in Massachusetts |
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| the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production |
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| the 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death from a heart attack in 1923. A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential newspaper publisher |
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| Hardings Campagine Slogan |
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| an unprecedented bribery scandal and investigation during the White House administration of United States President Warren G. Harding. Gave Big oil the navy reserves |
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| the 30th President of the United States (1923–1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont |
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| Washington Naval Conference |
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| a military conference called by the administration of President Warren G. Harding the first disarmament conference in history, and is studied by political scientists as a model for a successful disarmament movemen |
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| a multinational treaty, signed in 1928, that prohibited the use of war as "an instrument of national policy" except in matters of self-defense |
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