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“No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.”
― Edward R. Murrow

Source: CBS television broadcast, on See It Now (7 March 1954)

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1. Lasted about a decade and a half

2. Americans feared communists would infiltrate the government and gain world domination.

3. McCarthyism has become used today in a broader sense than just the Red Scare. It is used to describe accusations of treason or disloyalty without producing evidence.

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The Red Scare was a propaganda technique used during a series of US wars to promote fear of communism. This technique was most prominent during World War 2, and was heavily supported by Senator Joseph McCarthy. Following World War II (1939-45), the democratic United States and the communist Soviet Union became engaged in a series of largely political and economic clashes known as the Cold War. The intense rivalry between the two superpowers raised concerns in the United States that Communists and leftist sympathizers inside America might actively work as Soviet spies and pose a threat to U.S. security.