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Communists were perceived as wanting to take over the entire world, with their forms of government and economics.

After WW2, they controlled China and Russia (which had branched out into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), two of the largest nations on earth.

It was easy to see how Americans might have been afraid that they wanted to take over the US, as well.

Further, they had taken over these large countries from within, so (at least the sometimes irrational fear went...) a small group in the U.S. would lead an internal revolution that would take over the whole country.

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