Question

IDENTIFY and EXPLAIN at least 2 ways that the Second Red Scare (post-ww2) changed life for American's at the time.

Answer 1

Just four years after the end of World War 2, the biggest communist, USSR had developed its first nuclear weapon. This would set a path of fear of nuclear annihilation between the USSR and the US. The growing areas of communism had also started in countries such as Vietnam, China, Korea, Cambodia. Also, the European states that had been "liberated" by Nazi occupation stayed as communist satellite states for the USSR.