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The phrase "Red Scare" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to a period of heightened fear or paranoia of a potential communist takeover in the United States during the early-mid 20th century. Example sentence: The Cold War ushered in a new era of the Red Scare in the United States.
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red scare
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Fearmongering about a rise of communism to threaten Western nations, especially from Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc in the past, China, Cuba, North Korea, etc. but also from any leftist movements.
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Or call it the red scare.
The UK could have profited by a "red scare" of its own.
The paranoia fostered by the anticommunist movement became known as the "red scare".
America's first "red scare" took place in the wake of the 1918 Bolshevik revolution.
I grew up with nuclear bomb drills, the red scare, the end of the cold war.
Through sci-fi metaphor, Serling could talk about civil rights and the Red Scare without the censors stepping in.
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Japanese fascism during the Sino-Japanese War also grew from red-scare in their country and colonial territory.
One student of the Haymarket affair has called it "the first major 'red-scare' in American history".
I was doing "Red Scare on Sunset" in 1991.
This activity continued through the Red Scare of the period.
As were other schools, Erasmus was touched by the Red Scare of the mid-20th century.
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