What effect do you think the first paragraph of this document had on listeners in February of 1950?

Panic and fear.

Explanation:

The paragraph caused alarm and fear on US reader in the sense that Communism had an aggresive expansion and would menace the life in the United States sooner or later.

the answer would b b

harding's opponent in the 1920 election was ohio governor and newspaperman james m. cox, who had won the democratic nomination in a 44-ballot convention battle. harding rejected the progressive ideology of the wilson administration in favor of the laissez-faire approach of the mckinley administration.