Preview/Warm-up: As an American citizen during the cold war, what frightens

you? and why? Explain.

Refresh0Cold War0 Rivalry between communist Soviet

Union and capitalist USA0 Vying for control

0Arms Race0 Building bigger, better

0Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)0 If I have 2000 bombs, and you have

2000 bombs, nobody will win0 You can’t destroy my 2000 bombs

through a sneak attack, I have plenty left over to destroy you0So don’t try anything!

Military Industrial Complex0Reliance on arms

industry0Government continues

to build weapons even when unnecessary

0Economy needs military spending0 Otherwise goes into

depression0People who make and

sell weapons use money for influence0 Elections0 Dick Cheney

Compared to the world

0How much of the US economy was dependent on military spending in 1953? 1968?

0What would happen if we stopped that spending?0 Is there a motivation to stop the spending?

Butter Battle Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZi3joa8q-k

Duck and CoverThe 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