what factors motivated an increasingly frantic fear of domestic subversion in 1940~1950?

Question

what factors motivated an increasingly frantic fear of domestic subversion in late1940~early1950? Who were the key actors in the second Red scare? What was its long-term impact on American society?

Answer 1

The reason is pretty obvious. After Germany's defeat, it was a feeding frenzy between Britain, Russia and the US over who got the leading German scientists. Since we had the atomic bomb, everyone else wanted it also and were willing to go to lengths to get the know-how. That included spies and bribing people here at home. A couple of key actors in the US were a man and wife team....I'll let you look up that one. Long term? I remember having the bomb drills in school, everyone crawl under their desk...as if that was going to make a bit of difference to an atomic bomb. If it were you, wouldn't you experience fear, suspicion, etc? Think about it and you'll come up with the answers yourself.

Answer 2

Domestic Subversion

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what factors motivated an increasingly frantic fear of domestic subversion in 1940~1950?
what factors motivated an increasingly frantic fear of domestic subversion in late1940~early1950? Who were the key actors in the second Red scare? What was its long-term impact on American society?

Answer 4

I haven't researched this, but I would imagine it was the rise of the Soviet Union to an equal status with the western powers, in terms of economic and military power.

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