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2.2.2 quiz: the red scare
question 5 of 10
2 points
which statement is true of the 1950s?
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a. communism was never a political issue.
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b. fighting communism was a good way to get elected.
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c. opposing communism was not popular.
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d. many state department officials were communists.

B is correct

Explanation: 1917 (Bolshevik revolution in Russia) had enormous influence in Europe and Latin America. Communist parties were found all over the world. But, perhaps surprisingly, Anglo-saxon world was almost untouched by it. Later, fascination by 1917 was complemented by Russian victory in the WW II. Many atributed this victory to the "new Communist regime" or "homo sovieticus". Jalta conference gave USSR decisive influence a big part of Europe and Communist ideas were getting closer and closer to the USA. Truman´s doctrine and doctrine of containment were formulated and implemented. Red scare was one of the accompanying phenomena of that time. Paranoia entered American politics as well McCarthysm (named because of Missouri senator Joseph McCarthy) from late 1940s through the 1950s. USA of that time was dominated by a great wave of anti-Communism.