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After WWII, the legitimate concern was that the USSR would expand communism throughout the world unless the US pursued its containment policy. Although there were agreements made at Yalta, the USSR ignored those pledges with respect to Poland and the Balkans. When Secretary of State Acheson said that Korea was outside the US sphere in the Pacific, troops were promptly sent south of the 38th parallel in Korea. China fell to the communists in 1949, and suddenly 25% of the world's population was communist.

All of this on the international front led to concern on the domestic front regarding the spread of communism. In hindsight it's easy to say that the concern was hysterical domestically, but it has to be considered in the context of world events. The fear of communist takeover was real in Europe and Asia; it wasn't unreasonable to fear its rise from within the U.S. The Alger Hiss and Rosenberg cases served to raise that fear.

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