Use the excerpt from Joseph McCarthy’s famous “Enemies from Within” speech delivered in West Virginia on February 20, 1950, to answer the question.

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Use the excerpt from Joseph McCarthy’s famous “Enemies from Within” speech delivered in West Virginia on February 20, 1950, to answer the question.

Select the two highlighted examples that best identify the basis for McCarthy’s fear of the spread of communism in the world and in the United States.

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Answer 1

"Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time and place for their most spectacular assault on the Christian world. This morning our answer — this morning our answer is the same as it was in the Civil War. The country is awake today — thank God as it was awake in 1861."