In the context of the text

"the salem (and other) witch hunts" by mike kubic, how does fear drive action? how did fear play a role in the witch

hunts depicted in the text?

The statistics for the eastern war are grim. more than three-million men died in the fighting, more than nine-million men were wounded, and every major country which participated lost its form of government.

The tried to make the government smaller by making the government smaller