Brendalee3930 Brendalee3930 14-02-2018 History contestada The first Red Scare was a period in the US when Question 7 options: A diplomatic crisis during October of 1962 where the Soviets positioned missiles in Cuba and pointed them at the US Secret military campaign by the Soviets to overthrow democratic governments in Vietnam A plot by the CIA to overthrow the government of the USSR in 1924 Americans were worried and determined to protect the US from communist influence to preserve democracy and capitalism