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  • The establishmentof CPUSA

    The establishmentof CPUSA
    By 1919 CPUSA was established. It was a Maxist political party.
  • The members of CPUSA

    The members of CPUSA
    By august only a few months later the CPUSA had over 60,000 group members in a very short amount of time.
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    Labor movment

    The labor movment played a very big roll between the 1920's and the 1940's
  • Combining Parties

    The people that had remained in the original CPUSA joined with the United Communist Party and they established the Workers Party of America as a unified entity.
  • All Time Peak Of Membership

    The CPUSA's membership hit it's all-time peak of 85,000 in 1942.
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    The Red Scare

    The red scare was after World War 1 when communism took power in russia.
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    The CPUSA in its crisis

  • Downfall of CPUSA Memberships

    By 1957 the CPUSA membership had dramaticaly droped down to only 10,000 members. And among the 10,000 there were 1,500 FBI.
  • Cuting funds for CPUSA

    By the 1989 the USSR had cut of fundig to the CPUSA due to CP's opposition