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Preview/Warm-up: As an American citizen during the cold war, what frightens you? and why ? Explain. Refresh. Cold War Rivalry between communist Soviet Union and capitalist USA Vying for control Arms Race Building bigger, better Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

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  1. Preview/Warm-up: As an American citizen during the cold war, what frightens you? and why? Explain.

  2. Refresh • Cold War • Rivalry between communist Soviet Union and capitalist USA • Vying for control • Arms Race • Building bigger, better • Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) • If I have 2000 bombs, and you have 2000 bombs, nobody will win • You can’t destroy my 2000 bombs through a sneak attack, I have plenty left over to destroy you • So don’t try anything!

  3. Military Industrial Complex • Reliance on arms industry • Government continues to build weapons even when unnecessary • Economy needs military spending • Otherwise goes into depression • People who make and sell weapons use money for influence • Elections • Dick Cheney

  4. Compared to the world

  5. How much of the US economy was dependent on military spending in 1953? 1968? • What would happen if we stopped that spending? • Is there a motivation to stop the spending?

  6. Butter Battle Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZi3joa8q-k

  7. Duck and Cover The U.S. government never deployed an underground bomb shelter system. Civil defense was basically a minor program for public relations. It operated for years in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Finally, under Clinton, all of its booklets and records were ordered destroyed. In 1951, the year before the hydrogen bomb was invented, the government produced a low-budget film to be shown in public schools. There was even a Smokey Bear cartoon character to being the message silently: Bert the Turtle. The film was released in 1952. The film did not mention this: there were underground blast shelters at Hiroshima. The handful of people who fled into them on August 6, 1945, emerged unscathed. The only reason I know about this is because of Arthur Robinson's research in 1985 at the Oak Ridge Civil Defense library. The U.S. government never constructed such shelters for its civilian population. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60

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