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title: "What were Americans afraid of during the Red Scare of the 1950s?"  
description: "What were Americans afraid of during the Red Scare of the 1950s?"  
author: "Ward ryan"  
published: 2018-10-23  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51044/what-were-americans-afraid-of-during-the-red-scare-of-the-1950s  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What were Americans afraid of during the Red Scare of the 1950s? 

What were [Americans afraid](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/43028/why-were-gay-americans-afraid-to-come-out-of-the-closet-in-the-1950s-and-early-1960s) of during the [Red](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/300870/benefits-for-red-palm-oil) Scare of the 1950s? \
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