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First Red Scare, an Uncommon card
The first Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events, real events included the Russian 1917 October Revolution, German Revolution of 1918–1919, and anarchist…
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 97
- Power
- 181
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 99,000
Power 181 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
First Red Scare quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the First Red Scare card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The scare had its ______ in the hyper-nationalism of World War I as well as the Russian Revolution.
Answer
origins. The scare had its origins in the hyper-nationalism of World War I as well as the Russian Revolution. From the First Red Scare article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Pacifism. Pacifism 130,000 · First Red Scare 99,000 · Burning of Smyrna 68,000 · 2021 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election 16,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- At its height in 1919–1920, concerns over the effects of radical political agitation in American society and the alleged spread of socialism, communism, and anarchism in the American labor movement fueled a general sense of concern.
- The scare had its origins in the hyper-nationalism of World War I as well as the Russian Revolution.
- At the war's end, following the October Revolution, American authorities saw the threat of communist revolution in the actions of organized labor, including such disparate cases as the Seattle General Strike and the Boston Police Strike and then in the bombing campaign directed by anarchist groups at political and business leaders.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The First Red Scare article was read about 99,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 97: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
How to get First Red Scare
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, First Red Scare (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Sidney Joseph Greene, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
