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The McCarthy Era:

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• Americans began to fear that communists would take over the government • The Era was lead by Senator Joseph McCarthy • The Soviet Union had an increase in the education about the atomic bomb • China had already been taken over by communism, and Americans feared that Japan and Germany would transfer. • Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anit-communist crusade became popular and well known in 1950. • Many groups, such as the American Communist Party, African American, and Native Americans, were suspect of suspicious activities and monitored. • Various films were created pertaining to the domination of Communists such as “Red Nightmare” and “Duck and Cover” (this heightened American fears). • The FBI furthered the hysteria by provoking employers to hire and fire certain types of people. • The FBI also began surveillance.
 * House Un-American Activities Committee was created in 1938 to investigate allege disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and organizations having Communist ties.