Palmer Raids

History Shorts · Mar 25, 2025 · 1m

At the height of the first Red Scare that followed the First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the United States witnessed a series of aggressive raids in 1919 and 1920 that targeted and deported suspected radicals, especially communists and anarchists. SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast LEARN MORE: https://www.historyshortspodcast.com/ READ THE NEWSLETTER: https://historyshorts.substack.com/