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Q How did the Cold War affect the social and political climate in the United States during the 1950s? In particular, how do you explain McCarthyism and the Red Scare? Can you think of any modern parallels to these events, when fear and paranoia threatened basic American liberties? Elaborate.

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During the late 1940s and the late 1950s communism government controlled China. The Soviet Union had a large Communist power, but by 1950 a communist government had controlled China. The Soviet’s testing of their own atomic bomb and had also fuelled American Concerns over the military global power. The text suggests that the American leaders had proclaimed that the United States was engaged in the epic struggle with the Soviet Union over the future of humankind, these views further had fuelled paranoia among the American citizens and thus had a fear for our future and the basic way of the life way that gave to McCarthyism and the Red Scarce.