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Assignment:
Answer the following questions:
1. What was the main message of U.S. propaganda during the Cold War?
2. Compare and contrast two U.S. propaganda posters or political cartoons from the Cold War.
3. Name two historical developments that contributed to the themes in U.S. propaganda during the Cold War.
4. Summarize the common imagery used in U.S. propaganda during the Cold War.
5. Respond to the following questions about the propaganda film Duck and Cover.
a. Why do you think the U.S. government produced this film?
b. How do you think children reacted to this film in the 1950s?
c. Why do you think propaganda films like this one are no longer shown in schools?
6. Which piece of propaganda suggests that not all people in the United States fully supported the anticommunist ideas expressed in Cold War propaganda? Why do you think some people might have objected to this propaganda?
7. Which of the pieces of Cold War propaganda did you find the most convincing? Explain which source you believe would have been most effective at changing the attitudes of people in the United States during this period.
Prompt: Is it right for the government to promote media meant to steer public opinion in a specific direction?
Your response should be at least one paragraph long. Open the paragraph with a topic sentence that states your position on the prompt. Defend your position with two or three supporting detail sentences. Finally, end your paragraph with a concluding sentence that ties the paragraph's ideas together.