Question

Analyze the ways in which TWO of the following shaped American politics after the 2nd World War: anticommunism in the 1940s and 1950s, the women’s liberation movement, the ‘silent majority’ in the 1970s.

Answer 1

Anticommunism in the 1940s and 1950s led to strong feelings of fear during the Cold War that a nuclear war would be fought between the US and the USSR, while the women's liberation movement shed light on the idea that women were far from equal in society.