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Define McCarthyism and describe Margaret chase smiths reactions to McCarthy and the suppression of free speech during this time.

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McCarthyism was........ people were afraid of communism, and thought that there were spies in the US for the Soviet Union. So a group of people, including McCarthy, tried to weed out the spies in the US.
"I have in my hand a list of 205..... that are known communists...."
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