1. The Cold War in America

2. Cold War Fears at Home

3. Images as History What conflicting messages did these images send about surviving a nuclear blast? SURVIVING AN ATOMIC BOMB BLAST 3 Visions of America, A History of the United States “Duck and Cover” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= IKqXu-5jw60

4. Images as History The dynamite stick symbolized a nuclear attack. The intact turtle shell implied one could safely survive a nuclear attack by hiding. SURVIVING AN ATOMIC BOMB BLAST 4 Visions of America, A History of the United States

5. Images as History The “before” images portrayed a normal home and yard. SURVIVING AN ATOMIC BOMB BLAST The “after” images show the home engulfed in flames. This image directly contradicts the “duck and cover” message. 5 Visions of America, A History of the United States

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7. Nuclear Fallout and Fear Science fiction and comics tapped into Americans’ fears of nuclear fallout Government used propaganda to teach Americans how to deal with the threat Encouraged people to build their own shelters Interstate highway system doubled as defense system

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10. 10 Visions of America, A History of the United States SPUTNIK Sputnik alarmed Americans, leading to creation of NASA for space and missile research and greater federal aid to science and language education.

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12. The Hollywood Film Invasion, U.S.A

13. Cold War Fears at Home https://www.youtu be.com/watch?v=K QVXHlMvOoU How to spot a communist

14. Cold War Fears at Home https://www.you tube.com/watch? v=pDnxgRzCB_M The Best Years pt 3, start at 4;45

15. The Cold War at Home “Communists...are everywhere—in factories, offices, butcher shops, on street corners, in private businesses,... plotting to destroy the liberties of every citizen,” Attorney General J. Howard McGrath warned in 1949. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover warned against “the diabolic machinations of sinister figures engaged in un-American activities.”

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17. House Un-America Activities Committee Alger Hiss and Rosenbergs’ spy cases Targeted Hollywood for “subversive plotlines” Arthur Miller- “The Crucible” – used Salem Witch Trials as metaphor for HUAC investigations

18. Spy Cases Public anxieties were heightened when former State Department advisor Alger Hiss was accused of being a communist spy. Hiss went to jail for perjury, damaging Truman and the Democrats. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed as Soviet spies in the atomic bomb program despite worldwide protests.

19. McCarthyism McCarthyism – The government’s anti- communist crusade named for Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin, who, along with the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), spearheaded numerous governmental investigations into communist activities, many of them spurious 19 Visions of America, A History of the United States

20. Senator Joseph McCarthy

21. McCarthyism Senator Joe McCarthy from Wisconsin Claimed to have names of over 200 communists in the state department Eventually discredited after going after Army officials Declassified documents suggest U.S. communist party was connected to Moscow