Part a: which statement best identifies the central
idea of the text?
o a the government was cautious about communist
spies and relied solely on senator joseph
mccarthy to contain communism in america,
o b following world war ii, americans became
increasingly frightened by the prospect of
nuclear war and began invading other countries
to contain communism.
0 c joseph mccarthy used fear to manipulate
americans and government officials into
wrongfully accusing and convicting people of
being secret communists.
o d mccarthyism created national panic in the 1950s
by falsely reporting that communism was present
in america. even though it had historically only