To know each and every minute of every day wondering if this could be their last day. This fear is similar to the fear of living under a terroristic attack. Just like a nuclear attack, a terroristic attack could happen any day, any time, and anywhere. The video “Duck and Cover” explained to children how to protect themselves
Cold War and Communism The “Duck and Cover” short civil defense film released by the government to act as a public safety service announcement in 1951 educated many Americans how to react in a case of a nuclear attack. By wats National Reactor Station). The public needed the knowledge of the threat of nuclear war was real and by having the government aid in the production of “Duck and Cover” it opened the eyes to Americans that a threat of a nuclear was possible. Living under a nuclear threat must have been terrifying for all Americans especially children. Living in fear of a nuclear threat back in the 1950s is somewhat like today with the threat of terrorism.
Cold War and Communism Back during the time when there was a threat of the nuclear war, I can imagine it being a scary time. Just like any other danger that we could be faced with, it is very important to be prepared. Who would not be afraid of some brighter than the sun, that could also burn your skin, knock out windows, knock down signs, and could throw you into trees. The video showed how serious the threat was. The video was very informative.
Cold War and Communism Paper HIS/145 September 18, 2014 Lisa Hurley As someone who was taught the duck and cover to protect themselves from an earthquake watching the video it’s crazy to think it was invented to protect themselves from an atomic bomb going off in their time. The nuclear bomb threat was the most feared thing back then. It is less likely to happen to American’s in the modern times, yet we still have the same fear of being attacked just in highly different ways. The thought of being in constant fear is dreadful to even think of now and to believe this was the biggest fear always running through their minds makes it sad to know this was normal to them. If there was a flash the first thing that had to be done was to
The film manages to convey the mounting risk of global catastrophe. It accurately reproduces some of the restrained but anguished debate from the secret tapes, and it intersperses extraordinarily realistic footage of Soviet missile sites being hurriedly readied in jungle clearings, of American U-2s swooping over them, and of bombers, carrier aircraft, and U.S. missiles preparing for action. Thirteen Days makes comprehensible the awful predicament that President Kennedy faced. This would have been a hard thing for the film to create, but without this I think the film could have been such a factual one without making people realise how hard of a decision this was to make for Kennedy. Although this is all positives, the movie
The Cold War changed American culture in a number of important ways. Fear of communism greatly increased due to rising tensions with the Soviet Union. Politicians of both parties often tapped into that fear and ran for office based on how strong they would be against communists. And fighting communism always involved the threat of nuclear war since both the U.S. and Soviet Union had nuclear weapons trained on each other. President Dwight Eisenhower's military plan relied on nuclear stockpiles rather than land forces.
“The communist are coming” is a phrase that haunted most of my early childhood. I was born during the time that communism was a very frightening idea, still fresh in the minds of many of
US history Why there was Unrest during the Cold War Why there was unrest during the cold war was because there were so many different things going on in a short time that threatened the United States and different countries in the world. One of the reasons there was so much unrest is because people could see what was going on the world and with other countries because there was TV and more radios talking about the war and problems we had with our country and other ones. The Cuban missile crisis cause a lot of unrest with Americans because they were threaten by Cuba and Russia of a nuclear war where there was an invasion that was attempted by the united states to get rid of the nuclear and destroying the launch pats that the weapons needed
Americans had hated and feared Communism ever since it had appeared in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and had refused to recognize the new Soviet government, especially after Bolshevik leaders promoted the destruction of capitalism. During World War II, Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill delayed their decision to open a second front, which would have distracted the Nazis and taken pressure off the Red Army entrenched at Stalingrad. Stalin resented this delay, just as he resented the fact that the United States and Great Britain refused to share their nuclear weapons research with the Soviet Union. After the war, Truman’s decision to give Great Britain relief loans while denying similar requests from the USSR only added to the resentment. Another major factor contributing to the Cold War was the fact that the United States and USSR were the only two powers to escape World War II relatively unharmed.
A school is a place to learn and escape the violence of the outside world, but sometimes that violence is brought inside the walls built for learning. Since the terrifying Columbine high school shootings there have been many more violent gun incidents in schools. Metal detectors should be placed throughout schools all over the world to give students and teachers a safer feeling while going about their normal school days. Programs that deal with gun related topics should be held on a monthly basis and there should be class discussions very routinely also. Random searches for students should be enforced to make the students aware that they could be caught with a weapon at any time.