* 1954 – Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army-McCarthy Hearings begins.

* 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.

In 1940, ACLU leadership was caught up in the Red Scare, and voted to exclude Communists from its leadership positions.

She commuted between London to be with her husband, and New York, where she was blacklisted and thus rendered unemployable during the Red Scare of 1919-1920.

* 1954 – Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for " conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute ".

* 1953 – Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.

* 1950 – Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.

America's First Red Scare was beginning, and one of Hoover's first assignments was to carry out the Palmer Raids.

* 1947 – Red Scare: The " Hollywood Ten " are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.

The fact that state legislatures were dominated by Democrats and Republicans provided these parties an opportunity to pass discriminatory laws against minor political parties, yet such laws did not start to arise until the first Red Scare that hit America after World War I.

Harding granted a general amnesty to 23 prisoners, alleged anarchists and socialists, active in the Red Scare.

* Red Scare: Occasionally, undercurrents of the " Red Scare " are present.

In the United States, the Red Scare ( fear of communism ) caused public Congressional hearings by both houses in Congress and anti-communism was the prevailing sentiment in the United States throughout the decade.

** Second Red Scare: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.

** Red Scare: Celebrities including Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.

The Palmer Raids occurred in the larger context of the Red Scare, the term given to fear of and reaction against political radicals in the U. S. in the years immediately following World War I.

* Murray, Robert K., Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919-1920 ( Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955 )

Its membership declined dramatically after severe government repression as part of the first Red Scare and a 1924 split brought on by internal conflict.

The IWW membership fell to its lowest level in the 1950s during the Second Red Scare.

The explosion did, however, help fuel the Red Scare that was underway at the time.

As the Red Scare progressed, the association with communism concerned some members as well as supporters and Hay, a dedicated member of the Communist Party for 15 years, stepped down as the society's leader.

The term has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from 1950 to 1954 and characterized by heightened fears of communist influence on American institutions and espionage by Soviet agents.

Both Johnson and Schilling had suffered injuries during the season and Schilling was traded in the off season to the Boston Red Sox where he contributed to that team's 2004 World Series victory.

In recent times, it has become customary to invite units from France's allies to the parade ; in 2004 during the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, British troops ( the band of the Royal Marines, the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, Grenadier Guards and King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ) led the Bastille Day parade in Paris for the first time, with the Red Arrows flying overhead.

Oleg Bernov of the Russian-American rock band the Red Elvises plays a red electrified contrabass balalaika during the band's North American tours.

Later, Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, one of the most prominent officers of the Red Army of the Soviet Union during the inter-war years, developed the concept of deep operations from his experiences of the Polish-Soviet War.

" Bolo " was used as derogatory expression for Bolsheviks used by British service personnel in the North Russian Expeditionary Force which intervened against the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.

The usage is roughly equivalent to the term " Commie ", " Red " or " pinko " in the United States during the same period.

The plaza was the site of many benefit concerts at which Bo Diddley performed during his lifetime to raise awareness about the plight of the homeless in Alachua County, and to raise money for local charities, including the Red Cross.

Fidel Castro was a friend of the Marxist-Leninist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, whose regime killed hundreds of thousands during the Ethiopian Red Terror of the late 1970s and who was later convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Others have interpreted the fossil bearing rocks along Red Deer River in Alberta, Canada, as supporting a gradual extinction of non-avian dinosaurs ; during the last 10 million years of the Cretaceous layers there, the number of dinosaur species seems to have decreased from about 45 to about 12.

It was during the Red Terror that the Cheka, hoping to avoid the bloody aftermath of having half-dead victims writhing on the floor, developed a technique for execution known later by the German words " Nackenschuss " or " Genickschuss ", a shot to the nape of the neck, which caused minimal blood loss and instant death.

However some cavalry still served during the Second World War, notably in the Red Army, Italian Royal Army and the Polish Army.

His son Christopher Trumbo wrote a play based on his letters during the period of the blacklist, entitled Red, White and Blacklisted ( 2003 ), produced in New York in 2003.

In 2003, Christopher Trumbo mounted a Broadway play based on his father's letters called Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted, in which a wide variety of actors played his father during the run, including Nathan Lane, Tim Robbins, Brian Dennehy, Ed Harris, Chris Cooper and Gore Vidal.

Conquest's calculations excluded camp deaths before 1936 and after 1950, executions from 1939 – 1953, the vast deportation of the people of captive nations into the camps and their deaths 1939 – 1953, the massive deportation within the Soviet Union of minorities 1941 – 1944 and their deaths, and those the Soviet Red Army and secret police executed throughout Eastern Europe after their conquest during 1944 – 1945.

Tragedy struck the organization and the rest of the National Hockey League upon the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster, which claimed the lives of former Red Wings assistant coach Brad McCrimmon and defenseman Ruslan Salei, who had joined the KHL team during the summer.

The " Legend of the Octopus " is a sports tradition during Detroit Red Wings playoff games, in which an octopus is thrown onto the ice surface for good luck.

In 2006, Leary and Lenny Clarke appeared on television during a Red Sox telecast and, upon realizing that Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis is Jewish, delivered a criticism of Mel Gibson's antisemitic comments .< ref >

An early Muslim tradition is that the Negus Ashama ibn Abjar offered asylum to a group of Muslims fleeing persecution during Muhammad's life ( 615 ), but Stuart Munro-Hay believes that Axum had been abandoned as the capital by then – although Kobishchanov states that Ethiopian raiders plagued the Red Sea, preying on Arabian ports at least as late as 702.

Hot, dry desert strip along Red Sea coast ; cooler and wetter in the central highlands ( up to of rainfall annually ); semiarid in western hills and lowlands ; rainfall heaviest during June – September except in coastal desert.

This however soon ended when a large number of the German inhabitants of Elbing fled before the Soviet Red Army approached the city during World War II.

Among the most significant films produced during this period were David Lean's Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's thrillers Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ).

Parachutes were well-developed by 1918 having previously been used by balloonists, and were adopted by the German flying services during the course of that year ( the famous " Red Baron " was wearing one when he was killed ), but the allied command continued to oppose their use on various grounds.