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title: "How did fears of communist infiltration affect American culture in the 1950s and early 1960s?"  
description: "How did fears of communist infiltration affect American culture in the 1950s and early 1960s?"  
author: "Howard fuller"  
published: 2018-04-26  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41901/how-did-fears-of-communist-infiltration-affect-american-culture-in-the-1950s-and-early-1960s  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How did fears of communist infiltration affect American culture in the 1950s and early 1960s?

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