After WWII, Americans knew they lived in the strongest
             and "greatest" country on earth. They were however afraid
             of communism at home and abroad. Through the reading and
             discussions in this class I have found the primary reasoning
             for this fear was because they did not want to think our
             After the war businesses were trying to get back to
             normal and trying to convert form planes to cars so to
             speak. The entire economy was working to make life better
             for the country. Communism was going on all over the world
             in country's like china and Russia. The U.S. must always be
             the superpower so they put their two cents in when speaking
             about foreign affairs. The government did not want to deal
             with other country's because they did not want the communist
             influence to take effect in the U.S. So the Americans were
             making their own things in factory's and such. People were
             unable to buy goods they wanted or needed.
             During the cold war Joe McCarthy began t put out list
             of people whom he thought were communist in the U.S. The
             McCarthyism era began a widespread fear of communism.
             People in the U.S. were taught that communism was bad and
             anyone affiliated wit it were bad too. People were called
             "red or "pink" for showing suspicious signs of communism.
             Communist country's were not people whom you wanted to be
             affiliated with. McCarthy went crazy in accusing many
             people of being red or pink. McCarthy blamed many innocent
             people and few like the Rosenburg's were killed and later
             The McCarthy era can be compared to the book The
             Crucible. The children in the book had done something bad
             and got caught, but to take the attention off them they
             began to accuse people of being witches. People that had
             crossed them in some way became the ones who were accused
             and later innocently convicted and killed. I feel that
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