Pioneers who traveled on the Oregon Trail and other trails traveling west faced attacks from Indian tribes.
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Western democracies had always been hostile to the idea of a communist state. The United States had refused recognition to the USSR for 16 years after the Bolshevik takeover. Domestic fears of communism erupted in a Red Scare in America in the early Twenties.
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