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This threat prompted Senator Joe McCarthy to find fault in many American people.

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The threat posed by communism caused this. McCarthy claimed that he had a list of communists that were in the State Department, a belief that eventually led to McCarthyism; a widespread fear that the government was overrun with communists.
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