Cold War Political Cartoons
Students determine the subject of each describe the action and analyze the message.
Cold war political cartoons. Cold war political cartoons. Cold war political cartoons provide invaluable insight into americas past present and future. This great activity has students analyze 8 political cartoons from the 1950s 1960s. Canadian pm pierre trudeau.
What makes this a great cold war political cartoon is the parallel we can observe between. Cold war political cartoons. In april 1949 against the background of the cold war between the united states and the soviet union opland dutch cartoonist speculates on the future politics of a divided germany. Cartoon shows a barrel chested uncle sam wearing a shirt labeled tough talk flexing a puny muscle labeled production probably contrasts the eisenhower administrations hardline cold war rhetoric with its plans to cut back on military spending.
Punch cartoons on the cold war the western alliance nato the soviet union soviet block united states of america united kingdom greece europe germany berlin. Russian bear and uncle sam. The cupid of the new reality 1968 main characters. After world war ii mutual distrust between the united states and the soviet union led to international tension and the chilling threat of nuclear warfare in an era called the cold war cartoonistslike other americansdid not find solace in either joseph stalins or nikita khrushchevs terms for peace in the 1950s and 1960s.
Block published primarily in the washington post but also they were syndicated in other newspapers. Leonid brezhnev ussr president lyndon johnson usa chairman mao zedong china cupid. Political eventspolitical satirepolitical cartoonspolitical postersap world historyamerican historyappeasementsatirical illustrationsworld war i. Canadian secretary of state for external affairs howard green.
Those ottawa styles are out of season 1949 main character. Blocks career illustrated the power of political cartoons to influence opinions. The wealthy getting tax exemptions while the rest of america. The rich stay rich.
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