Multiple choice

McCarthyism in the 1950s is most closely associated with

  1. claims that communists had infiltrated the federal gov't

  2. efforts to prevent pro-communist gov'ts in Latin America

  3. formation of the Warsaw Pact

  4. passage of the Interstate Highway Act

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Explanation

McCarthyism refers to the intense anti-communist suspicion in the United States during the early 1950s, characterized by Senator Joseph McCarthy's unsubstantiated claims that communists had infiltrated the U.S. government.