SA Directions Directions: Read Each Question Carefully and Write Your Responses Using

SA Directions
Directions: Read each question carefully and write your responses using complete sentences; an outline or bulleted list alone is not acceptable.
-"At the very time the Senate was censuring [Senator Joseph] McCarthy,Congress was putting through a whole series of anti-Communist bills…The liberals in the government were themselves acting to exclude,persecute,fire,and even imprison Communists.It was just that McCarthy had gone too far,attacking not only Communists but liberals,endangering that broad liberal-conservative coalition which was considered essential… Undoubtedly,there was success in the attempt to make the general public fearful of Communists and ready to take drastic actions against them-imprisonment at home,military action abroad.The whole culture was permeated with anti-Communism."
Howard Zinn,The People's History of the United States,1980
" "McCarthyism" subsequently became a term synonymous with repression and terror-an amazing development considering that not one of the people subpoenaed by the senator to testify lacked legal counsel;none were arrested or detained without due process;and no one went to jail without a trial.The bottom line,however,was that anticommunism was a serious response to genuine threats on many levels than it was a form of paranoia… Spies…had given the Soviets the data they needed to make an atomic bomb… Labeling this the Red Scare,or hysteria,is a gross exaggeration."
Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen,A Patriot's History of the United States,2007
Using the excerpts above,answer parts a,b,and c.
a)Briefly explain the central argument about post-World War II anti-Communism made by the first passage.
b)Briefly explain the central argument about post-World War II anti-Communism made by the second passage.
c)Briefly provide ONE additional piece of evidence,not referenced in the passages,that supports one of these two interpretations of post-World War II anti-Communism.