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- Olympics fueled rivalry
- 1980: The Miracle of Ice
- US boycotted Summer Olympics; USSR boycotted four years later
- Culture became official and unofficial cold war publicity: a negotiation between the private sphere and the state
- Peter Boyle: Hollywood films, music and television ads were more successful in undermining communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe than missiles
- 1984: Reagan's presidential campaign
- The ad symbolizes the treat posed by the USSR
- After effects of nuclear war
* The Day After (US, 1983)
- Cold war espionage
* Invasion USA (US, 1985)
- Technological competition and Space Race
* Firefox (US, 1982)
- First emerged in the late 1950s; reappeared in the 1980s
- Largest anti-nuclear protest was held in New York on June 12 1982
- The Hague in 1983: demanded to end Arms Race
- Bobby Fischer: the famous American chess player.
- The British musical "Chess:" the rivalry between Cold War opponents through the medium of chess tournaments.
- Ballet became powerful political propaganda
- Historian David Caute:
* In the cultural war between the two superpowers, Russia excelled with plays and ballet while the US in significant technological supremacy.
- Photography became more prominent
- Art influenced by political /personal attitudes towards Reagan era
- Keith Haring (1986) created 300 meter long painting on West side of Berlin Wall
-http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/tshaw.htm
- Peter G. Boyle, "The Cold War Revisited: Review Article," Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 35, No. 3 (July 2000), p. 488
- http://www.thespacerace.com/
- http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ap80/hd_ap80.htm
- http://www.dw.de/moscow-1980-cold-war-cold-shoulder/a-3524906-1