Original sentence: Both periods were  characterized by the suspicion (sometimes justified) of widespread civil-service infiltration by Communists and Anarchist and fears of communist influence on U.In 1917, President Wilson established a "Committee on Public Information" to disseminate news favorable to the Allied cause and hostile to Germany.The pejorative term "Red Scare" has been retroactively applied by leftist intellectuals to two distinct periods of intense anti-Communism in United States history: first from 1917 to 1920, and second from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s.The roots of the "Red Scare" lie in the subversive actions of the foreign and leftist elements and the resulting efforts of the U.To a few Americans, this was a time of uncertainty and fear over the prospects of a revolution in the United States.government to suppress dissent and (In the opinion of these latter day leftists) to engineer pro-war opinion in the preparation for the American entry into World War I
Edited sentence: Both periods were characterized by the suspicion of widespread civil-service infiltration by Communists and Anarchist and fears of communist influence on U.The pejorative term "Red Scare" has been applied to two distinct periods of intense anti-Communism in United States history: first from 1917 to 1920, and second from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s.The roots of the Red Scare lie in the efforts of the U.To many Americans, this was a time of uncertainty and fear over the prospects of a revolution in the United States.government to suppress dissent and engineer pro-war opinion in the preparation for the American entry into World War I.in 1917, President Wilson established a "Committee on Public Information" to disseminate news favorable to the Allied cause and hostile to Germany