{"id":1243,"date":"2017-07-11T03:02:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T03:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ushistory2os\/chapter\/primary-source-media-the-cold-war\/"},"modified":"2017-07-11T03:02:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T03:02:46","slug":"primary-source-media-the-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/rangercollege-ushistory2os\/chapter\/primary-source-media-the-cold-war\/","title":{"raw":"Primary Source Media: The Cold War","rendered":"Primary Source Media: The Cold War"},"content":{"raw":"

The Cold War was a global political and ideological struggle between capitalist and communist countries, led by the two surviving\u00a0superpowers of the postwar world: the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).\u00a0\u201cCold\u201d because it was\u00a0never a \u201chot,\u201d direct shooting war between the United States and the Soviet Union, the\u00a0generations-long, multifaceted rivalry nevertheless\u00a0bent the world to its whims.\u00a0Tensions ran highest, perhaps, during the \u201cfirst Cold War,\u201d which lasted from the mid-1940s through the mid-1960s, after which followed a period of relaxed tensions and increased communication and cooperation, known by the French term\u00a0d\u00e9tente<\/em>, until the \u201csecond Cold War\u201d interceded from roughly 1979 until the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. As the following sources reveal, the\u00a0Cold War reshaped the world, and in so doing forever altered American life and the generations of Americans that lived within its shadow.\n<\/p>

Atomic Energy Lab 1951-1952<\/h2>\n
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\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1000\"]\"Atomic<\/a> A.C. Gilbert Company, \u201cU-238 Atomic Energy Lab\u201d (1950-51), via Wikipedia.[\/caption]\n\n
\n\nThis toy laboratory set was intended to let young people perform small scale experiments with radioactive materials in their own home. Equipped with a small working Geiger Counter, a \u201ccloud chamber,\u201d and samples of radioactive ore, the set\u2019s creator claimed that the government supported its production to help Americans become more comfortable with nuclear energy.\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Duck and Cover (1951)<\/h2>\nIn 1951, Archer Productions created \u201cDuck and Cover,\u201d a civil defense film funded by the U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration. The short film, starring Bert the Turtle and shown to Cold War school children, demonstrates \u201cduck and cover\u201d\u2013a physical position designed to mitigate the effects of a nuclear blast.\n","rendered":"

The Cold War was a global political and ideological struggle between capitalist and communist countries, led by the two surviving\u00a0superpowers of the postwar world: the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).\u00a0\u201cCold\u201d because it was\u00a0never a \u201chot,\u201d direct shooting war between the United States and the Soviet Union, the\u00a0generations-long, multifaceted rivalry nevertheless\u00a0bent the world to its whims.\u00a0Tensions ran highest, perhaps, during the \u201cfirst Cold War,\u201d which lasted from the mid-1940s through the mid-1960s, after which followed a period of relaxed tensions and increased communication and cooperation, known by the French term\u00a0d\u00e9tente<\/em>, until the \u201csecond Cold War\u201d interceded from roughly 1979 until the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. As the following sources reveal, the\u00a0Cold War reshaped the world, and in so doing forever altered American life and the generations of Americans that lived within its shadow.\n<\/p>\n

Atomic Energy Lab 1951-1952<\/h2>\n
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A.C. Gilbert Company, \u201cU-238 Atomic Energy Lab\u201d (1950-51), via Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This toy laboratory set was intended to let young people perform small scale experiments with radioactive materials in their own home. Equipped with a small working Geiger Counter, a \u201ccloud chamber,\u201d and samples of radioactive ore, the set\u2019s creator claimed that the government supported its production to help Americans become more comfortable with nuclear energy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Duck and Cover (1951)<\/h2>\n

In 1951, Archer Productions created \u201cDuck and Cover,\u201d a civil defense film funded by the U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration. The short film, starring Bert the Turtle and shown to Cold War school children, demonstrates \u201cduck and cover\u201d\u2013a physical position designed to mitigate the effects of a nuclear blast.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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