"In God We Trust" was added to currency in the mid 1950s as part of the "Red Scare" and anticommunist sentiment. Before 1957 the national motto was E PLURIBUS

"In God We Trust" was added to currency in the mid 1950s as part of the "Red Scare" and anticommunist sentiment. Before 1957 the national motto was E PLURIBUS UNUM - One From Many. Too commie! This was the same time that "under god" was added to the pledge of allegiance, which before just read "... One nation, indivisible"