Why were many Americans fearful and suspicious of communists during the 1940's and 1950's?

Why was christianity so appealing to the people of the roman empire

What does the quote describe? “the closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us….the shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.”

Brainles asap!me : -how has religious fundamentalism been used by extremists in the middle east?