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HOW TO SURVIVE AN ATOMIC BOMB !!! Upon watching the clip about Atomic Survival from 1951, answer the following questions: 1. 1. What are some of your observations or What are some of your observations or thoughts? thoughts? 2. 2. How did the clip depict 1950s American How did the clip depict 1950s American life? life? 3. 3. How did the clip make surviving a How did the clip make surviving a nuclear bomb sound? nuclear bomb sound? 4. 4. Are there any moments in the clip that Are there any moments in the clip that make the Atomic Survival clip seem make the Atomic Survival clip seem biased? biased?
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Page 1: HOW TO SURVIVE AN ATOMIC BOMB!!! HOW TO SURVIVE AN ATOMIC BOMB!!! Upon watching the clip about Atomic Survival from 1951, answer the following questions:

HOW TO SURVIVE AN ATOMIC BOMB!!!

Upon watching the clip about Atomic Survival from 1951, answer the following questions:

1.1. What are some of your observations or What are some of your observations or thoughts? thoughts?

2.2. How did the clip depict 1950s American How did the clip depict 1950s American life? life?

3.3. How did the clip make surviving a How did the clip make surviving a nuclear bomb sound? nuclear bomb sound?

4.4. Are there any moments in the clip that Are there any moments in the clip that make the Atomic Survival clip seem make the Atomic Survival clip seem biased?biased?

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The Beginning of the The Beginning of the Cold War: 1945 - 1991Cold War: 1945 - 1991

VSVS..Military, Political, Economic, & Military, Political, Economic, &

Social Competition to Be The Social Competition to Be The Best in the World!Best in the World!

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US & US & Russian Russian Soldiers Soldiers

Meet at the Meet at the Elbe River, Elbe River, Germany: Germany: April 25, April 25,

19451945

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Cuban Missile Crisis 1961

Cuba is 90 miles south of Florida!!

Red Scare Part 2

Some People Really Thought This!!

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Pop Culture Tie-in to Cold Pop Culture Tie-in to Cold WarWarAfter watching the four

cartoons, answer the following question in your notebook:

1.1. What is happening in these What is happening in these videos?videos?

2.2. How would you describe How would you describe the relationship between the relationship between the 2 main characters?the 2 main characters?

3.3. How, do you think, these How, do you think, these characters are a metaphor characters are a metaphor for the Cold War?for the Cold War?

Video #1

Video #2

Video #3

Video #4

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Spy vs. SpySpy vs. SpyA Metaphor for the Cold WarA Metaphor for the Cold War

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The Very First Spy vs. Spy The Very First Spy vs. Spy Comic StripComic Strip

• Spy vs. Spy first showed up in MAD Magazine in 1961

• Created by a Cuban immigrant escaping political persecution of that Communist country for criticizing Communist Dictator Fidel Castro

• The 2 characters “Cloak” & “Dagger” came to embody the absurdity of the way the U.S. & U.S.S.R. dealt with each other

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““Cloak” & Cloak” & Dagger” Dagger”

CharacteristicsCharacteristicsJot down 5 characteristics Jot down 5 characteristics

used to describe either used to describe either characters in the Spy vs. characters in the Spy vs.

Spy comicsSpy comics

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““SPIES LIKE US”SPIES LIKE US”• The usage of spies and espionage by both the U.S. &

the U.S.S.R. highlighted the fact that both countries viewed the other as a threat

• Both were untrusting of the other’s actions and working in secret, these spies would pass sensitive information to the country they worked for in an effort to help them “win” the Cold War

• Some spies were double-agents working for the country they were, supposedly, spying on

• Later, military technology developed methods of espionage that did not require “human intelligence”

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The Causes of the Cold WarThe Causes of the Cold War• BELIEFSBELIEFS

– The Soviet Union was a Communist country -- needs of the state are primary, ruled by a dictator

– The USA was a Capitalist-Democracy which valued personal freedom and feared Communism

• AIMSAIMS– Stalin wanted huge reparations from Germany, and a

‘buffer’ of friendly states to protect the USSR from being invaded again

– USA wanted to protect democracy, and help Germany to recover.   They were worried about the spread of communism in Eastern Europe and other areas of the world

• RESENTMENT ABOUT HISTORYRESENTMENT ABOUT HISTORY– U.S.S.R. could not forget 1918 attempts by U.S. & Britain to

destroy the Russian Revolution.   Stalin also thought that they had not given him enough help in WWII

– Britain and the USA could not forget that Stalin had signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact with Germany in 1939

• EVENTSEVENTS

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How Did These How Did These Events Contribute Events Contribute

to the Rift to the Rift Between the U.S. Between the U.S.

& U.S.S.R?& U.S.S.R?

EARLY EVENTS OF THE COLD EARLY EVENTS OF THE COLD WARWAR