This document study is designed to be with a setCold War Propaganda posters which can be found at:
http://historeidenai.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/cold-war-propoganda/
2. Identify what information is in the source. Remember nothing is in there by accident so try to work out as many points it is communicating to you as possible.
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4. Look at Smoking Cigarettes, 1950. What are the qualities of the Marlboro Man’s Soviet opposite?
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6. Who are the heroes and who are the villians in the three movies?
7. How the the two latter movies similar to the earlier image of the Marlboro Man?
8. The Cold War was just that, cold. But according to these sources when fighting had to be done who fought? What were the qualities of the fighters?
9. How do these images reflect the fundamental personal qualities of the people of American society and how does it contrast with those of the Soviet society?
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11. Some posters make strong statements by NOT referring directly its enemy or the qualities of its enemy. According to the poster USA baut what is the fundamental difference between the practices of the United States and that of the Soviet Union?
12. Find an example using the same approach produced to paint the Soviets positively. Which one have you chosen, how did they do it and do you think it is effective or not? Why?
27. According to Fallout Farm and the DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WASHINGTON DC MAY 1958 what was an indirect threat posed by nuclear weapons to the American people?