Objectors were targeted in the Red Scare after the war. ... In October 1918, Congress passed the Alien Act, which gave the Secretary of Labor the power to deport any alien who, at any time after entering the United States, is found to have been at the time of entry, or to have become thereafter a member of any anarchist organization. ... Another reason for the Red Scare was the strike held by mine workers. ... The Red Scare was a product of World War I and anti-liberalism. ... What is known as the Red Scare of 1919-1921 set precedent to the hunts of the McCarthy era, where he accused two...

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• Grade Level: High School

His novels The Hunt for Red October and The Cardinal of The Kremlin provide insights which will capture the imagination of many readers. ... Through use of historical facts such as defection in The Hunt for Red October (THRO), Clancy is able to advance his plot. ... In June 1987 a German teenager landed in the Red Square in Soviet Union. ... When Ramius received a message from one of the American submarines and mentions his submarine's name, Red October, he was astonished because Americans were not supposed to know about his wish to defect. ... Tom Clancy makes numerous references to ...

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Many customs and traditions fell by the wayside in order to assimilate in the general society, but certain red lines were not crossed. ... They became engaged soon after, but they would only marry in October 1945, after he returned from three years' service in Europe. ... This was the height of the Cold War and the United States was undergoing a witch hunt that looked for Communists in entertainment, government, the Army, education, et al. ... My father's first memory of a political nature was the Cuban Missile Crises in October 1962, although he did not realize at the time how close...

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The Count dreamed of an enormous canal that would go from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, an idea that was laughed at by most. ... The architect named for this design was Richard Morris Hunt, who was a very popular person with the rich upperclass New York citizens. ... The final unveiling day was October 28, 1886. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Cummings One of America's noted modern poets, Edward Estlin Cummings, was born on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Since this poem has no rote meaning, it is as easy to interpret it as a leisurely deer hunt as it is to view it as the preface to the apocalypse. ... Cummings' poetry was "designed to liberate the emotions and the imaginations of his readers by alternately (or simultaneously) shocking and exalting them-. (1376) All in Green is one poem that exalts the reader by taking them through watching "four red roebuck at a white water- in a "gold valley- with t...

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Jones on the other hand spent his time sitting in the taproom of the Red Lion at Willingdon. ... Pilkington owned the Farm; he was an easygoing gentleman, fished and hunted depending on the season. ... Early October Mr. ...

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The Sun Also Rises was finished on April 1, 1926 and was published in October of 1926 (Selkirk 96, Bruccoli 75). ... As a boy, he was taught by his father to hunt and fish. ... Hemingway signed up as a volunteer ambulance driver for the Red Cross during WWI (Wilson 2). ...

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