Red ScareBaruch College, CUNY. Image Database. Dates are approximately from the Armistice in November of 1918 to the collapse of hyper-inflation in mid-1920. A time when the US faced a deadly flu epidemic, a strike wave, race riots, hyper-inflation, mass round-ups and deportations of foreign born citizens, expulsion of duely-elected officials, an incapacitated president, espionage laws, sedition laws and the advent of Prohibition and women's suffrage.