Pros And Cons Of The Red Scare

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My position if the Red Scare. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a staring contest with hundreds of nuclear missiles. In the early 1950s, this is what people felt like. The Red Scare was a period of time during the Cold War. When government workers, teachers, and leaders suspected of being a communistic would be fired or would be fined with jail time. Many people thought that because we were in a staring contest with the U.S.S.R. that people were communistic. We shouldn’t blame them. I would be skeptical if someone was being communistic.

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