History Questions
1. Do you think that America’s fear of a communist takeover in the 1960s was valid?
The fear of communism appeared to take on an almost personified form in the 1960s. America and, indeed, the rest of the west, were terrified of a communist takeover, in much the same way that the fear of the H1N1 virus spread across the world a couple of years ago. It was as if the Americans believed that they could ‘catch’ communism like they could a cold. Their fears were not completely unfounded by their ignorance seems to suggest a lack of real understanding of what communism ...
