Red Scare/Palmer Raids

During the 1940s, the communists in the United States became known as the Red Scare. From the Cold War happening between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Americans feared the communists would take over them. Communism is where there are no social classes and people share the wealth produced in equal labor. Americans did not want this control of the government over the people. The communists were called the reds for the color of the Soviet flag was red.  Through the Cold War, there were U.S. citizen spies from the Soviet Union. This led to President Truman creating the Executive Order 9835 which determined if the federal employees were loyal to the government. This brought the palmer raids which were raids conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice that made an attempt to arrest communists, anarchists, and radicals. Led by attorney general Mitchell Palmer, they used weapons such as explosives and other devices for violent activity. Palmer believed that the only way to get rid of these radicals was to stop the immigrants from coming in to the U.S.. All of these raids were conducted under warrants from the court, so they would arrest as many people as possible in order to stop all of the communists they could.  Palmer still believed that there were over 300,000 communists still in the U.S., even after arresting so many.