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.

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.