The 'Red Scare' (1940s-50s)

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The 'Red Scare' (1940s-50s)

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Mar 12, 2023

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University of California-Davis history Professor Kathryn Olmsted taught a class on how the 'Red Scare' evolved into a wide-ranging conspiracy theory in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Mar 12, 2023

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