For Your Consideration - Narrative

PRIMARY SOURCE #1 - http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=12011
Loyalty tests
The heated atmosphere of anti-Communism during the Cold War allowed the US government to embark on an unprecedented campaign of suppression against the left at home.
On 22 March 1947, US president Harry Truman ordered that every federal employee was to be investigated for signs of disloyalty. By December 1952, some 6.6 million people had been investigated and hundreds dismissed from their jobs. Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed that dozens – sometimes he claimed hundreds – of communists were active in the government. Through the House Un-American Activities Committee, he was able to bully and slander hundreds of US citizens. Government loyalty boards tested people for communist sympathies.

1.) Describe this account?

2.) What were loyalty test?

3.) What were people trying to accomplish with these loyalty tests?

4.) What feelings did these tests evoke in the people who were taking them? Why?

5.) Do you think people the loyalty test were fair? Why or why not?

6.) In your opinion, do you think anit-communist loyalty tests are still being conducted or not? Why?


PRIMARY SOURCE #2 - http://www.designer-daily.com/10-amazing-cold-war-propaganda-posters-2901
Propaganda Posters
The Cold War lasted from the end of World War II right up to the early 1990s, although the Soviet Union and the USA never actually engaged in direct battle. Instead, the Cold War was expressed through weapons development (the nuclear arms race), technological development (the space race), espionage and propaganda.

1.) What is propaganda?

2.) Who made propaganda posters (east/west/both)?

3.) Who was the audience for these posters?

4.) What feelings did these posters evoke in the people who read them? Why?

5.) Did these posters give accurate, factual information?

6.) In your opinion, were propaganda posters a good source of information? Why or why not?


PRIMARY SOURCE #3 – http://www.gonomad.com/features/0710/berlin.html
Berlin after World War II
While Berliners may have felt a collective sigh of relief at the end of the Second World War, their suffering and angst was far from over. In the years following the end of the war the tensions between the East and West grew, culminating in 1961 with the construction of the Berlin Wall.

1.) Why were Berliners relieved at the end of WWII?

2.) What does the author mean that there suffering and angst was far from over?

3.) What tensions existed between the East and the West after WWII?

4.) What significant event took place in 1961?

5.) Do you think people living in Berlin were happy about the Berlin Wall?

6.) Give an account of the life of a Berliner and how it changed as a result of the construction of the Berlin Wall?


PRIMARY SOURCE #4 – http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33784429/ns/world_news-fall_of_the_berlin_wall_20_years_later/
Fall of the Berlin Wall
BERLIN - Thousands of cheering Germans re-enacted the electrifying moment the Berlin Wall came crashing down — toppling 1,000 graffiti-adorned 8-foot-tall dominoes that tumbled along the route of the now vanished Cold War icon, celebrating 20 years of freedom from separation and fear.

The spectacle — billed by organizers as a metaphor for the way the real wall came down 20 years ago Monday and the resulting fall of communist countries in eastern Europe — was one of several events to mark the anniversary and celebrate the profound change it had not only Germany, but Europe and the world.

Chancellor Angela Merkel — the first east German to hold the job — called the fall of the wall an "epic" moment in history.

1.) What event is this account talking about?

2.) When was this account written?

3.) What is the author talking about in the statement ‘freedom from separation and fear’?

4.) What changes took place in Germany when communism fell?

5.) Do you think people living in Berlin were happy about the Berlin Wall coming down?

6.) Give an account of how the life of a Berliner and how it changed as a result of the fall of Berlin Wall?


PRIMARY SOURCE #5 – http://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/cold_war/topics/274/
Fear of Nuclear War
The air raid sirens hum loudly, shelters are erected, and the general public is busy learning the art of "duck and cover."

1.) Why did the sirens hum? Was there a REAL disaster?

2.) When was this account most likely written? Why do you think so?

3.) Why were shelter erected? What were these shelters like?

4.) What is the art of ‘duck and cover’?

5.) Why did people learn ‘duck and cover’ and was it effective?

6.) Give an account of how a person living during the cold war might have felt when practicing how to respond during a nuclear attack.


PRIMARY SOURCE #6 – http://www.ndu.edu/inss/strforum/SF141/forum141.html
Nuclear Weapons
In the Cold War, the fear of nuclear war was used by the United States to encourage caution and stability. Had it not been for that fear, the 20th century might have had three world wars instead of two. The nuclear standoff between arsenals large enough to assure mutual destruction caused each of the superpowers to avoid the likelihood of nuclear war.

1.) What did the US encourage regarding nuclear war?

2.) What does the author credit with avoiding a third World War??

3.) What does the author believe would have happened had nuclear weapons been used?

4.) What countries do you think had nuclear arsenals during the Cold War? Were they used?

5.) Do you think people are still afraid of nuclear war?

6.) Give an account of how a person living during the cold war might have felt when about nuclear weapons? How might this person feelings be different today?

For Your Consideration - CARTOONS

CARTOON/DRAWING #1

1.) Who do these two people represent?

2.) What feelings does this cartoon evoke?

3). What similarities do you see between the figures in this picture? What differences?

4.) In what time period do you think this image was created?

5.) How do you think people felt about this picture at the time it was created?

6.) What historical progress has taken place since the time this image was created?




CARTOON/DRAWING #2

1.) Who might be the audience for this poster?

2.) What is the message the creators of the poster want to convey?

3.) What feelings would this poster evoke in people who read it? Why?

4). After reading this poster, what might a person choose to do? Who would they contact?

5.) In what time period do you think this image was created?

6.) Is this a poster you would see today? Why or why not? What historical progress has taken place since the time this image was created?



CARTOON/DRAWING #3

1.) Who might be the audience for this image?

2.) Think back to video clips we watched in class. What message is this video conveying to it’s audience?

3.) What feelings would this video evoke in people who watched it? Why?

4). What did a person learn from this video?

5.) Do you think the strategies taught in this video were useful? Would they have helped a person survive a nuclear attack?

6.) Is this a video you would see today? Why or why not? What historical progress has taken place since the time this image was created?



CARTOON/DRAWING #4

1.) Describe this cartoon?

2.) What feelings does this cartoon evoke? Why?

3). Pick on image in the cartoon and describe who or what that image represents.

4.) In what time period do you think this image was created?

5.) How do you think people felt about this picture at the time it was created?

6.) What historical progress has taken place since the time this image was created?




CARTOON/DRAWING #5

1.) Describe this cartoon?

2.) When do you think this cartoon was created? Why

3.) Who does the man in the cartoon represent? What is he trying to do?

4.) What feelings does this cartoon evoke? Why?

5.) Do you think people in communist countries and non-communist countries felt the same way about his photo? Why or why not?

6.) Explain relevant historical progress and how this map would look different today.


CARTOON/DRAWING #6

1.) Describe this cartoon?

2.) When do you think this cartoon was created? Why

3.) Who do the men in the cartoon represent? What are they trying to do?

4.) What feelings does this cartoon evoke? Why?

5.) Do you think people in communist countries and non-communist countries felt the same way about his photo? Why or why not?

6.) In your opinion, so you think this is a cartoon you would see published in a current newspaper? Or is it no longer relevant?

For your consideration - PHOTOS

PICTURE #1

1.) Describe the people in this picture.

2.) What is the time period of this picture?

3.) What do you think the people in the picture are doing?

4.) How do these people feel?

5.) Tell me the story of one of the people in this photograph.

6.) What are the people in this photograph going to do next?




PICTURE #2

1.) Where do you think the people in this picture are?

2.) What is the time period of this picture?

3.) Describe the people in this picture.

4.) How do these people feel?

5.) Predict how you would feel if you were in the same place as these people.

6.) What do you think this couple will do next?

PICTURE #3

1.) What are the primary images you see in this picture?

2.) What do these images represent?

3). What similarities do you see between the images in this picture?

4.) In what time period do you think this image was created?

5.) How do you think people felt about this picture at the time it was created?

6.) What judgments can you make about the historical progress that has been made since this image was created?

PICTURE #4

1.) What is this a picture of?

2.) What is the time period of this picture?

3.) What feelings do you think this picture evoked in people in the time period it was taken?

3.) Do you think this picture would evoke the same feelings in people today? Why or why not, explain.

4.) Do the images in this photograph still exist like this today? Explain you answer.

5.) Give an account of what country this picture was taken in and why the leaders of the country chose to create these items.

6.) What judgments can you make about the historical progress that has been made since this

PICTURE #5

1.) What is this a picture of?

2.) What is the time period of this picture?

3.) Imagine you are a student in the time this picture was taken. How would this photograph make you feel?

3.) Does this picture evoke the same feelings in you today? Why or why not, explain.

4.) In the time period this photograph was taken, how did people prepare to deal with this type of an event happening where they live?

5.) Give an account of what country this picture was taken in and why the leaders of the country chose to create this weapon.
6.) What judgments can you make about the historical progress that has been made since this image was created?

PICTURE #6

1.) Where do you think the people in this picture are?

2.) What is the time period of this picture?

3.) Describe what the people in this picture are doing. Give an explanation for the people on both sides of the wall.

4.) Assume you are on one side of the wall, how would you feel under these circumstances?

5.) Give examples of ways the lives of these people will change over the next few years.

6.) What judgments can you make about the historical progress that has been made since this image was created?