1. why were american citizens so anxious or fearful during the years of the cold war?

a)american citizens did not trust the nature of communism, and were afraid the united states would adopt a communist government..

b)the leaders of the united states worked hard to make citizens afraid of communism so that they would accept capitalism.

c)american citizens were afraid that that soviet union might engage the united states in a nuclear war

d)having seen the devastation that came out of the great depression, american's feared the impact of the soviet economy.

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the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.

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