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What communist gains around the world created the fear that set the stage for the excesses of mccarthyism

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The fact that the Soviet Union had spread/ forced communism throughout Eastern Europe, China had become communist, and the Soviet Union created the nuclear bomb in 1949, which was much quicker than Americans had anticipated.

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communism in China, Soviet nuclear bombs, and discovery of Soviet agents in the United States

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