What, If Any, Legitimate Concerns Might Americans and the American

question 150

Essay

What, if any, legitimate concerns might Americans and the American government have had about Soviet spying and American Communists' disloyalty in the late 1940s? Why did the hunt for spies and subversives expand into a wide-ranging political witch hunt that smeared many innocent Americans?

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