American Society in the Cold War Era HST/175 Version 2 University of Phoenix Material American Society in the Cold War Era Complete both parts of this assignment. Part A: American Culture and Society in the 50s From the following two lists, choose five events from each column. Identify the basic facts, dates, and purpose of the event in two to three sentences in the Identify column. Include why the event is significant in the significance column, and add a reference for your material in the reference column. Fabulous 50s Culture The Hula Hoop Disneyland McDonalds The Mickey Mouse Club Interstate Highways Dishwashers Drive-in Theaters Levittown Leave it to Beaver I Love Lucy American Bandstand Elvis Presley Chuck Berry James Dean Beats Reverand Billy Graham Event Identify Cold War Society Red Scare House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) Ronald Reagan (President of the Screen Actors Guild, not as the future U.S. president) Senator Joseph McCarthy Fallout Shelter Duck and Cover Drill CIA Sputnik Cuba and Fidel Castro Cold War Propaganda Alger Hiss The Korean War Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Significance Reference Copyright © 2016 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. 1 American Society in the Cold War Era HST/175 Version 2 Part B: Select and complete one of the following: Option 1: Cold War Soviet Spy Option 2: Red Scare and McCarthyism Option 1: Cold War Soviet Spy For this assignment, imagine you are a Soviet (USSR) spy during the 1950s Cold War-era. You have been instructed to write an encrypted letter to your Soviet contact explaining the recent past and current U.S. Cold War policies, events, and practices. Once you have completed this letter, you will mail it to your contact in Paris, so he or she, in turn, will forward the message to a KGB agent in Moscow. Resource: University of Phoenix Material: Historical and Scholarly Sources Review the Historical and Scholarly document in this week’s reading. Complete a thorough investigation on actual Soviet Spies in the 1950s. You may use your textbook, primary and secondary sources, scholarly sources, and newspapers/magazines. Create a letter of 700- to 1,050 words. You may use the letter template below. Include at least five of the following events/policies: • • • • • • • • • • • • NATO The Marshall Plan Warsaw Pact The Truman Doctrine National Security Council Document Number 68 (NSC-68) Korean War The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Containment Eisenhower Doctrine Hungarian Revolution American U-2 Spy plan (1960) Include one source for this assignment. Format the text of your letter consistent with appropriate course-level APA guidelines. Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files tab. Option 2: Red Scare and McCarthyism In this scenario, you are a set designer for a Hollywood movie production company in 1952. You decide to write a letter to the editor of the Los Angeles Times against Senator Joseph’s McCarthy’s anticommunist pursuit of the entertainment industry in Hollywood. Review the required reading on the Red Scare and McCarthyism. Write a 700- to 1,050-word letter to the editor. Include many of the following terms in your essay: • • • • • • • Hollywood Blacklist Ronald Reagan’s HUAC testimony (1947) House Un-American Activities Committee Senator Joseph McCarthy Richard Nixon The Fifth Amendment Screen Actors Guild Copyright © 2016 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. 2 American Society in the Cold War Era HST/175 Version 2 • • The Hollywood Ten Screen Writers Guild Include one source besides your textbook. Format the text of your letter consistent with appropriate course-level APA guidelines. Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files tab. Copyright © 2016 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. 3 American Society in the Cold War Era HST/175 Version 2 [Your street address] [Your city] [Your postcode] [Day, Month, Year] [Name and title of recipient] Embassy of the Soviet Union 40-50 Boulevard Lannes 75116 Paris, France Dear [recipient’s name and title] [Main body should be 700-1000 words and include five events/policies listed above] Yours sincerely, [Name] References: Copyright © 2016 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. 4
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