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Museum Entrance

Welcome to the Museum of Cold War 1965-1975. Museum Entrance. Cultural. Economical. Political. Vietnam. Social. Curator’s Offices. Curator’s Office. Sam Stevens.

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Museum Entrance

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  1. Welcome to the Museum of Cold War 1965-1975 Museum Entrance Cultural Economical Political Vietnam Social Curator’s Offices

  2. Curator’s Office Sam Stevens This museum is about the cold war, specifically events between 1965 and 1975. The rooms are divided into cultural, economical, social, political, and vietnam Contact me at [Your linked email address] Return to Entry Note: Virtual museums were first introduced by educators at Keith Valley Middle School in Horsham, Pennsylvania. This template was designed by Dr. Christy Keeler. View the Educational Virtual Museums website for more information on this instructional technique.

  3. Political Room 1 Artifact 3 Return to Entry

  4. Cultural Room 2 Return to Entry

  5. Economical Room 3 Return to Entry

  6. Social Room 4 Return to Entry

  7. Vietnam Room 5 Return to Entry

  8. Artifact 1 Détente, a policy of lessening cold war tensions, replaced brinkmanship under Richard M. Nixon. "Brinkmanship by Tate Foley RecessionArtStore." RecessionArtStore RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Apr. 2014. Return to Exhibit

  9. Artifact 2 Three months after visiting Beijing in February 1972, Nixon visited the Soviet Union. After a series of meetings called the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), Nixon and Brezhnev signed the SALT I Treaty. Textbook "Strategic Arms Limitation Talks." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 19 Apr. 2014. Web. 22 Apr. 2014. Return to Exhibit

  10. Artifact 3 .  The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for the United States, the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, sometimes also abbreviated asMI-6, its wartime name) for Britain, and the Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB) in the Soviet Union all expended enormous sums on spying, contriving with surprising success to penetrate each other's intelligence agencies with double agents Schlagheck, D. M. "cold war and the United Nations." In Pubantz, Jerry, and John Allphin Moore Jr. Encyclopedia of the United Nations, Second Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2008. Modern World History Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE53&iPin=EUNN0061&SingleRecord=True (accessed April 21, 2014). LinkeN.p., n.d. Web.d Return to Exhibit

  11. Artifact 4 1971, the United States witnessed an embarrassing reversal of its cold war China policy when, by an overwhelming vote in the General Assembly, the government of Beijing replaced the Republic of China in the organization, becoming an official permanent member of the Security Council. Schlagheck, D. M. "cold war and the United Nations." In Pubantz, Jerry, and John Allphin Moore Jr. Encyclopedia of the United Nations, Second Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2008. Modern World History Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE53&iPin=EUNN0061&SingleRecord=True (accessed April 21, 2014). "Flag of China." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 22 Apr. 2014. Web. 23 Apr. 2014. Return to Exhibit

  12. Artifact 5 Red Guards led a major uprising called the cultural revolution. Red Guards shut down schools and targeted anyone who threatened the regime. From 1966-1968, 20-30 million red guards roamed Chinas cities and countries causing widespread chaos. To smash the old , non-Maoist way of life,they destroyed buildings and beat and even killed Mao’s alleged enemies. Textbook "Chinese Cultural Revolution." Chinese Cultural Revolution. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014. Return to Exhibit

  13. Artifact 6 The cold war and the domestic American culture it created constituted a balancing act between the need for privacy and community, innocence and information, fear and reality. The men and women who lived through World War II were eager to move on with domestic life and make the world safer and better for their children. Gordon, Beverly Kendall. "cold war culture." In Winkler, Allan M., Charlene Mires, and Gary B. Nash, eds. Encyclopedia of American History: Postwar United States, 1946 to 1968, Revised Edition (Volume IX). New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2010. American History Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE52&iPin=EAHrIX052&SingleRecord=True (accessed April 22, 2014). N.p., n.d. Web. Return to Exhibit

  14. Artifact 7 The threat of communism invading the home and corrupting the nuclear family of mother, father, and children was ever present throughout the cold war. No person contributed to this fear more than Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. McCarthy held a series of televised hearings to ferret out possible communists within American society. Gordon, Beverly Kendall. "cold war culture." In Winkler, Allan M., Charlene Mires, and Gary B. Nash, eds. Encyclopedia of American History: Postwar United States, 1946 to 1968, Revised Edition (Volume IX). New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2010. American History Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE52&iPin=EAHrIX052&SingleRecord=True (accessed April 22, 2014). N.p., n.d. Web. Return to Exhibit

  15. Artifact 8 Suburban subdivisions offered families, especially those who wanted to leave urban centers yet still maintain a connection to the city, the opportunity to purchase their own homes. The simply designed Levittown homes in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey as well as imitators throughout the nation were sold to American families eager to buy a small plot of land and a piece of the "American dream." Schlagheck, D. M. "cold war and the United Nations." In Pubantz, Jerry, and John Allphin Moore Jr. Encyclopedia of the United Nations, Second Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2008. Modern World History Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE53&iPin=EUNN0061&SingleRecord=True (accessed April 21, 2014). "Levittown: The Imperfect Rise of the American Suburbs." US History Scene. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Apr. 2014. Return to Exhibit

  16. Artifact 9 Military expenditures by the US during the Cold War years were estimated to have been $8 trillion, while nearly 100,000 Americans lost their lives in the Korean War and Vietnam War. Although the loss of life among Soviet soldiers is difficult to estimate, as a share of their gross national product the financial cost for the Soviet Union was far higher than that of the United States. Schlagheck, D. M. "cold war and the United Nations." In Pubantz, Jerry, and John Allphin Moore Jr. Encyclopedia of the United Nations, Second Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2008. Modern World History Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE53&iPin=EUNN0061&SingleRecord=True (accessed April 21, 2014). N.p., n.d. Web. Return to Exhibit

  17. Artifact 10 In 1971 Nixon started the Nixon shocks and went off the gold standard .Nixon Shock was a series of economic measures taken by United States President Richard Nixon in 1971 including unilaterally canceling the direct convertibility of the United States dollar to gold. It helped end the existing Bretton Woods system of international financial exchange, ushering in the era of freely floating currencies that remains to the present day. Nixon Shock." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 18 Apr. 2014. Web. 22 Apr. 2014. N.p., n.d. Web. Return to Exhibit

  18. Artifact 11 The Nixon Shock has been widely considered to be a political success, but an economic mixed bag in bringing on the stagflation of the 1970s and leading to the instability of floating currencies. The dollar plunged by a third during the '70s, and in 1997 several Asian and Latin countries faced currency crises. Nixon Shock." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 18 Apr. 2014. Web. 22 Apr. 2014. N.p., n.d. Web Return to Exhibit

  19. Artifact 12 In 1973 inflation in the U.S. was at 9% and in 1974 it was 12%. Inflation is a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money. Nixon Shock – Announces Devaluation of the Dollar for “Stability,” “Protect” Currency from Evil Speculators;." HistorySquared Nixon Shock Announces Devaluation of the Dollar for Stability Protect Currency from Evil Speculators Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014. Return to Exhibit

  20. Artifact 13 In fear of nuclear attacks by the Soviets, and shortly after the Cuban missile crises in 1963, Americans started to make bomb shelters. N.p., n.d. Web. Return to Exhibit

  21. Artifact 14 The threat of communism invading the home and corrupting the nuclear family of mother, father, and children was ever present throughout the cold war. No person contributed to this fear more than Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. McCarthy held a series of televised hearings to ferret out possible communists within American society.. Gordon, Beverly Kendall. "cold war culture." In Winkler, Allan M., Charlene Mires, and Gary B. Nash, eds. Encyclopedia of American History: Postwar United States, 1946 to 1968, Revised Edition (Volume IX). New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2010. American History Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE52&iPin=EAHrIX052&SingleRecord=True (accessed April 22, 2014). Szoldra, Paul. "US Intelligence Report Warns Of 'More Probable' Likelihood Of Russian Invasion Of Eastern Ukraine." Business Insider. Business Insider, Inc, 26 Mar. 2014. Web. 23 Apr. 2014. Return to Exhibit

  22. Artifact 15 Two of the major victors- the united states and soviet union – in WWII Became superpowers that divided the world into two heavily armed and irreconcilable camps. . Schlagheck, D. M. "cold war and the United Nations." In Pubantz, Jerry, and John Allphin Moore Jr. Encyclopedia of the United Nations, Second Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2008. Modern World History Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE53&iPin=EUNN0061&SingleRecord=True (accessed April 21, 2014). "Letters to The Editor: MassMutual Acts as Good Neighbor; Is This America, or the Soviet Union?; and More." Masslive.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014. Return to Exhibit

  23. Artifact 16 Television, with its three major broadcast companies of ABC, CBS, and NBC, was also a source of information, beginning to replace newsmagazines in the American home. Instead of reading The Saturday Evening Post, people were tuning into news broadcasts and commentaries. The television set was a double-edged sword of family-oriented entertainment and critical and shocking news stories. Schlagheck, D. M. "cold war and the United Nations." In Pubantz, Jerry, and John Allphin Moore Jr. Encyclopedia of the United Nations, Second Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2008. Modern World History Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE53&iPin=EUNN0061&SingleRecord=True (accessed April 21, 2014). "ABC, CBS, NBC Evening Shows Fail To Mention Islam In London Terror Attack Reporting… | Weasel Zippers." Weasel Zippers RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014. Return to Exhibit

  24. Artifact 17 The amount of men deployed in the Vietnam were very large. The u.s. had 500000, North Vietnam had 250000, and South Vietnam had 327000. Phillips, Charles, and Alan Axelrod. "Vietnam War." Encyclopedia of Wars, vol. 3. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2005. Modern World History Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE53&iPin=EWAR1673&SingleRecord=True (accessed April 21, 2014). "2014 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Sochi." Boston.com. The New York Times, n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014. Return to Exhibit

  25. Artifact 18 Despite heavy losses the communist North prevailed ,the united states withdrew, and in 1975 North and South Vietnam were under communist government. Phillips, Charles, and Alan Axelrod. "Vietnam War." Encyclopedia of Wars, vol. 3. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2005. Modern World History Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE53&iPin=EWAR1673&SingleRecord=True (accessed April 21, 2014). "Vietnam Warfare." Vietnam Warfare. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014. Return to Exhibit

  26. Artifact 19 U.S. involved by late 1965,more than 185000 troops were in combat. U.S. had the most advanced army on the world. Phillips, Charles, and Alan Axelrod. "Vietnam War." Encyclopedia of Wars, vol. 3. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2005. Modern World History Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE53&iPin=EWAR1673&SingleRecord=True (accessed April 21, 2014). "Vietnam War Fast Facts - WAR HISTORY ONLINE." WAR HISTORY ONLINE. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014 Return to Exhibit

  27. Artifact 20 Vietnamation allowed for U.S. troops to gradually pull out , while the South Vietnamese increased their combat rate. Nixon authorized a massive bombing campaign against North Vietnamese bases and supply routes.he also authorized bombings in neighboring loas and Cambodia to destroy Vietcong hiding places. Phillips, Charles, and Alan Axelrod. "Vietnam War." Encyclopedia of Wars, vol. 3. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2005. Modern World History Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE53&iPin=EWAR1673&SingleRecord=True (accessed April 21, 2014). http://www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/03_The-World-since-1900/08_Post-War-Problems/08c_Asian-Struggle-for-Independence-2.htm Return to Exhibit

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