Red stood for the Governments that are to Australia's north and yellow referred to the colour of the Chinese who were communists (reds) Australians were fed a steady diet of terror stories about the eventual flood of Communist Chinese invaders that were about to rush their country. This Propaganda was fed to Australians in order to get them to fight in American wars in the Middle East, which in turn had trade benefits for Australia.
It was a racial epithet directed against persons of Asian descent that was fashionable in Europe and America in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The second Red Scare
During the Red Scare, the Americans feared the spread of communism (red was the colour of the flag of the communist Soviet Union and the communist emblem known as the red star). There were two Red Scares in U.S.A.: 1) 1919-1920: Fear of socialist revolution and political radicalism (red is a symbol of radical ideology). 2) 1947-1957: Fear of national and foreign communism influencing American society and/or infiltrating the federal government.
Communism
Red Scare.
because they fear that the communist will take over them
yellow peril
Yellow Peril - novel - was created in 1991.
During the 1800s and early 1900s, the "Yellow Peril"; a fear that the Yellow race would over-power the White race.
The Yellow Peril - 1908 was released on: USA: 7 March 1908
London's Yellow Peril - 1915 is rated/received certificates of: UK:U
It started when the Japanese and Chinese and Japanese population was increasing immensely. This is what made the yellow peril. Discriminatory laws started in the early 1900's.
The cast of The Red Peril - 1919 includes: Paul Everton
She named a car she bought " Yellow Peril" -It was a Kissel Speedster" . Her only yellow aircraft was the Kinner Airster and she apparently named that "The Canary" by all accounts.
The cast of Demonic Heroine in Peril - 2005 includes: Yohei Hira as Pops Ryo Nakano as Gedo Kosei Otsuka as Trio Yellow Takumi Tojo as Trio Red
The alleviation of immigration laws brought on by the "Yellow Peril" in America during the 1880s thru the 1930s. Yellow Peril=Yellow Race competing with the White Race for supremacy.
An apperil is an obsolete term for a peril - an individual thing which causes fear or dread.
Yellow Peril