Herblock drew parallels between the tactics of Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy’s mud-slinging and Soviet Union propaganda, finding each approach unacceptable. He demanded that moderate Republicans take responsibility for McCarthy’s actions.

Eight political cartoons on the Red Scare are presented in this collection. Published in main- stream newspapers, they reflect the postwar RED SCARE . anxiety fueled by anarchist bombings, nationwide labor strikes, radical activists, Communists in unions and liberal groups, and the murderous Bolshevik takeover of Russia in 1917.

This 1947 pamphlet produced by the Catholic Catechetical Guild Educational Society was part of a "Red Scare" in the U.S. that raised fears about the horrors of a communist takeover.

For four years McCarthy attacked communism, while in his cartoons Herb Block relentlessly attacked his heavy-handed tactics. In June 1954, McCarthy was censured and in December condemned by the Senate.

Eight political cartoons on the Red Scare reflect the perspective of mainstream America from 1919 to the mid-1920s. Who were the "Reds"? How did they threaten America? What should be done about the threat? What solutions, safeguards, …

The result was a “red scare” in which many Americans feared that radical immigrants and home-grown revolutionaries threatened the U.S. government, the capitalist economy, and American way of life. Source: The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University

The Red Scare was influenced by wartime patriotism, immigration from eastern Europe, and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, and fueled by newspaper editorials and cartoons. This cartoon by James P. Alley features a “European Anarchist†sneaking up on the Statue of Liberty.

Published in main- stream newspapers, they reflect the postwar RED SCARE anxiety fueled by anarchist bombings, nationwide labor strikes, radical activists, Communists in unions and liberal groups, and the murderous Bolshevik takeover of Russia in 1917. Americans wondered: Was a Communist-inspired revolu- tion imminent in America?

Analyze Political Cartoons of the Red Scare period and create an original political cartoon. Students will create a satirical essay about creating an "enemy"

Cartoon shows a man being frightened by the Red scare as he reads his newspaper with headlines "Reds," "Labor," "Molotov," and "Rocket bomb," while a long snake labeled "Ku Klux Klan" enters his living room window.