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Social effects of the Cold War

Social effects of the Cold War. Arms Race. ICBM Sputnik Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis. McCarthyism. McCarthyism. Politicians, FBI, educators, social commentators warn of communist spies

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Social effects of the Cold War

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  1. Social effects of the Cold War

  2. Arms Race • ICBM • Sputnik • Bay of Pigs • Cuban Missile Crisis

  3. McCarthyism

  4. McCarthyism • Politicians, FBI, educators, social commentators warn of communist spies • Senator McCarthy - quest to expose communists - liberal, radical, behaving in “odd” way - thousands lose jobs for once being a communist • Conform to a socially sanctioned way of life

  5. The Civil Rights Movement • Irony of American “freedom,” exploited by USSR propaganda • weakness of capitalism – poverty, segregation, voting rights, extralegal violence • Influence of Gandhi on Martin Luther King Jr. • Gradual successes: • Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954, against school segregation • Rosa Parks, Montgomery Alabama, 1955

  6. Feminism • Families provided best defense to Communism - Women stay home and rear patriotic children, as opposed to working, like in the Soviet Union • Women treated as second class citizens, unhappy with lack of choice/freedom • More married women worked during cold war than WWII - feeling of shame not living up to standards • Women inspired by Communist women, independence movements in Asia and Africa from colonial powers - equal rights • Language of Marxism and anti-colonialism - oppressed class; against male colonization of female bodies; women’s liberation

  7. Cold War Countercultural Protests • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb • Critique of nuclear power policies • Massive anti-Vietnam protests • Rock and Roll as counterculture • Watergate Scandal (1972-1974) • President Nixon orders illegal wiretaps, discovered and forced to resign 1974

  8. Fall of the Berlin Wall

  9. Reagan and Gorbachev

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