Communist threats in the US

During WW2 the US was allies with the USSR to take out the greater evil Germany. After the war ended tensions between the nations increased almost instantaneously. The USSR hated capitalism and the US hated communism and both nations were the biggest and best examples of their economic systems. Both were the biggest world powers post world war two and had the military and nuclear power that could easily destroy each other. With the spread of communism, communist ideals had reached the minds of some american's. A small portion of the working class had wanted a communist revolution in the US to redistribute the wealth, there were rich people that owned most of the country's wealth. The small amount of communist in the US were considered extremists and were jailed for little or no reason because of Americas fear and hatred for communism.