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Mccarthyism In The 1940's And 1950s

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The 1940’s and 1950’s in America were times of resilience and prosperity, but along with these new advances came a new emphasis on religion and strengthening distinctions between certain classes and groups of people One thing that majorly aided the development of a consumer economy was the idea of specialization and having “work tasks broken down into minute components for easier surveillance, unionized labor forces, and rising labor productivity. McCarthyism was focused on lessening the power of the Communist Party in America therefore, deterring any Americans from helping foreign powers who did not support democracy Karl Marx, the original thinker of Communism, believed that a proletarian revolution of the lower class should occur, which

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