communism in the 50s
anti-communism continued into the 1960s but lost its pitch around 1954
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in 1950 fewer than 50,000 Americans out of the total US population which was 150 million werer members of the communist party
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communist were often referred to as "reds" due to their allegiance to the red soviet flag.
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following world war II, the democratic United Stats and communist Soviet Union became engaged in a series of largely political and economic clashes known as the cold war
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the Soviet Union tested a nuclear bomb, then took over China led by Mao Zedong the following year the Korean war took place
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the fear of communism began to ease in the 1950s
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Mcarthy went to far and started initiated hearings against the US army
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soviet spies were sending atomic information from America to Russia only a small fraction who lost their jobs were connected to the USSR
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