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The Red Scare

How and Why History

Jul 31, 202023:02Society & Culture

In the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy was the public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fuelled fears in the United States of widespread Communist subversion. McCarthy believed Soviet spies and sympathizers had...

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The Red Scare is an episode from How and Why History. In the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy was the public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fuelled fears in the United States of widespread Communist subversion. McCarthy believed...

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Published Jul 31, 2020, 23:02 long, audio available.