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the fear followed in America.
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How did the idea of nuclear annihilation affect the lives
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of Americans?
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And how did the Cold War affect?
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The idea followed shelters in the United States, starting with
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the critical introduction in 1947.
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The Cold War started this.
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This sparked fear among Americans because they knew about the
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nuclear technology that the Soviet Union had.
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So who is fighting the Cold War?
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The Cold War was between the United States and the
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Soviet Union, and it wasn't necessarily a war, mostly just
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the rivalry between the two countries.
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It was also called the Atomic Age, and it persisted
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for decades until 1991.
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Yeah, what weapons did the Soviet Union have?
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In 1949 the Soviet Union tested their very own Adam
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bomb after United States tested theirs.
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This became a race to see which country could create
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the most destructive atomic weapon, also known as the atomic
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age. So when exactly did the Cold War begin?
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Although the two countries had fought together in World War
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Two, the relationship was never stable.
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Americans were worried about the USSR's communism, and the USSR
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had problems with America's refusal to accept them as legitimate
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country. And and in their late entrance to World War
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Two, which led to hundreds of version deaths, thes tensions
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led to their inevitable rivalry.
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Other Cold War problems.
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The Cold War came along with the race to space,
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which the USSR ended up succeeding.
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It is the first to put a man on the
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moon. The scare of communism was very widespread in the
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United States, and it was also known as the Red
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Scare. These problems built up to America's overall fear of
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the USSR's power.
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The Cold War fears in America, the Cold War fears
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in America were that Americans feared the USSR's power in
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their ability to produce powerful and deadly weaponry.
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They also feared the spread of communism would be inevitable
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if the USSR became more powerful than the United States.
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So how the fear of atomic weapons affected Americans.
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Millions of Americans across the country were scared of the
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USSR's ability to produce deadly atomic weapons.
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It is known that people will cling to any source
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of hope.
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They get in scary situations, and in the 19 fifties
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Americans claim to follow shelters.
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So about these follows shelters, they were typically designed to
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withstand radioactive fallout from a nuclear blast and hopefully survived
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the initial blast itself.
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These small shelters provided Americans with a sense of security.
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During the Cold War, the shelters were showcased in newsreels
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and were greatly popularized in romanticized.
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So how are these fellas?
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Shelters remain to sized.
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These shelters were romanticized in the 19 fifties due to
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the hope they provided Americans.
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Realistically, a 1 ft thick sailing would protect you from
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the impact of the hydrogen bomb.
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Yet people still bought into the false sense of hope
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as a way of coping with their fears of atomic
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annihilation. Moving on to the primary source, I chose the
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newsreel primary source from 1959 and unfortunately it won't pray
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play in presentation.
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So how society perceives these followed shelters.
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Thes shelters were distractions from the Cold War and the
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threat of nuclear disaster and the threat of communism from
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this new Israel viewers Comptel that these shelters were very
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popular and it was almost the good thing to do.
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Everyone wanted one, so you were higher up if you
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had one.
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It was a status in the 19 fifties and sixties,
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the source also in steel installed fear in those watching
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people. During these times, we're looking for an escape from
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reality. They did this by believing that a follow shelter
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would fix all Cold War problems.
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These shelters help people cope with their fears, even if
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they weren't going to save their lives.
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The secondary source I chose to use was also a
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newsreel from the 19 fifties.
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The newsreel transcript talked about how it's truly a shape
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ship room, a shipshape room on Lee, 8.5 by 12
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ft in size, but with an amazing amount of storage
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space as a way to make the audience interested in
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it, the source demonstrated.
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The interest in these shelters in the news really talked
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about how, in addition to good supply of foods in
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a 40 gallon tank of water, the shelter also has
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recreational facilities for Children and so to bed, in comfort
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insecurity in this home within a home.
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They wanted interest in these shelters to spike, not only
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to encourage others to build them between still fear within
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them what this source meant for Americans.
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This source showed Americans what was needed for their at
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home follow shelter.
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It also contributed to the widespread desire for these shelters
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and increased the level of fear in Americans worried about
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the fate of the country after the Cold War.
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What this meant for society in America.
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This meant that it would forever be impacted by the
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fear these Americans were experiencing during the Cold War and
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could see how fear affected people and their need to
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clean the hope.
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How did fallout shelters change Americans mentalities?
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When these shelters were first introduced, people felt more secure,
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knowing there were ways to protect yourself from the nuclear
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dangers posed by the USSR.
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In conclusion, the USSR sparked fear among the Americans during
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the Cold War.
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The high levels of fear led to their romanticized followed
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shelters as a coping mechanism for their worries.
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The Cold War turned Americans into scared cattle, clinging onto
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all sources of hope they could find