He tryed to finance a war with the scots
they thought if one country in an area fell to communism the countries surrounding the country would also fall to communism which lead to the red scare.
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In 1940 the Congress passed the Alien Registration Act of 1940 (known as the Smith Act) which required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the government, and made it a crime "to knowingly or willfully advocate ... the duty, necessity, desirability, ... of overthrowing or destroying any government in the ...
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