Evaluate how much beliefs about threats to the United States shaped American society from 1917 to 1945.
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From 1917 to 1945 beliefs about foreign and internal threats shaped American society to a large extent, justifying repression of radicals, immigration restriction, isolationist foreign policy and the internment of Japanese Americans - though wartime needs also opened new arguments for civil rights.
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Palmer wrote as attorney general in 1920, while defending the raids his own department had carried out - his purpose of justifying those actions explains why he presents radicals as an urgent danger to the nation.
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Show how the same fear cut different ways - restricting immigrants and dissenters while also giving activists like Bethune an argument for democracy at home - or connect the period to the McCarthyism of the 1950s.
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