... in poverty. However, America feared this political view because their ideology was very different from that of communism's ideology. America's foundation is capitalism where Communism's foundation is equality. The rise of communism caused a series of events that led Americans to fear communists around the world, in their own ... increased the fear. For example, Mao Zedong from China also converted his country to communism, even though America and Chiang Kai-Shek tried to block this from happening. Then China had a large role in spreading communism to Korea (Doc H). Eventually, in 1950, ...

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... of Prohibition. By 1925, there were over 100,000 speak-easies in New York City alone. With only 1,550 federal agents over 18,700 miles of vast unpoliced coastline, it was clearly impossible to prevent immense quantities of liquor from coming into the country. A whopping not even 5 percent ... of obtaining alcohol, liquor was actually very easily obtained. The bootlegging business was so immense that customers could easily acquire alcohol by walking down the block or almost any street. Replacing saloons, which were all shut down at the start of Prohibition, were illegally speak-easies. T...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate