The Cold War The Effects of the Cold War on the American Psyche.
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The Cold War
The Effects of the Cold War
on the American Psyche
The Mass Media Brings Fear
• Devastation brought on by Germany was seen “first hand” by the mass public
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The Soviet Union• Originally allied with Hitler • Then, Hitler ordered a slash and burn
campaign inside Soviet Union• Soviet Union aligns with US and
Great Britain• Countries Included: Russia, Kazakhstan,
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
World War II
Allies (The Big 3)
-- Great Britain
-- United States (1942)
-- USSR (came later)
Axis Powers
Italy (rebuild Roman Empire)
Germany (fascism)
Japan (control SE Asia)
The Atomic Bomb…
• Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1942
• Third Reich (Germany) collapses in 1944
• Japanese refusal to surrender
• USA drops Atomic Bombs (Fat Boy and Little Man) on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Japanese finally surrenders
The Mass Media Brings Fear
• Devastation brought on by Germany was seen “first hand” by the mass public
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Background on the Cold War
Communism sets in:
• a system where the government plans and owns the economy
• collective ownership of property and gov’t organization of labor
The Cold War Begins
• USSR Territories–Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia,
Lithuania, Estonia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
What happened at the end of World War II?
Formation of the Eastern bloc
What happened at the end of World War II?
Division of Germany –Building of the Berlin Wall–East – part of Eastern Bloc
(communist)–West – independent nation
Fear Sets In
Competition during the Cold War
• The Nuclear Standoff
• The Space Race
How did all of this affect the fears of the American Public?
Write It!
In your journal, describe the fears that Americans had after WWII and during the Cold War.
What is Science Fiction?
1950s – Science Fiction becomes popular
How might Science Fiction
be linked to the Cold War?
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