Topic: Red Scare developemtn

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Describe and explain the development of the red scare which took place in the late 1940s and 1950s. What role did Senator Joseph McCarthy play? Why did the red scare diminish by the mid-1950s? What did the American people learn from this whole episode?

Source Course textbook: George B. Tindall and David E. Shi, America: A Narrative History, Ninth Edition, Volume Two (New York: W.W. Norton, 2012)