WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

WORLD WAR II

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Alger Hiss conviction * Rosenberg trial * McCarthy hearings These post-World War II events are most closely associated with the fear of:
A
anincrease in immigration from the SovietUnion
B
laborconflicts in United States cities
C
anexpansion of communism into Cuba
D
acommunist threat inside the United States
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of televised hearings held by the United States Senate’s Subcommittee on Investigations (April–June 1954) to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Detailed explanation-2: -From the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, McCarthyism-the hunt for Communists in the government and public life, a period most closely associated with Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy-was a significant domestic objective of the Cold War era.

Detailed explanation-3: -Which factors is most closely associated with McCarthyism? Fear of communist influence in the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -McCarthyism, also known as the second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of alleged communist and socialist influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s.

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