Assignment:
Pick one primary source document from any of the chapters we read to analyze. In your well-written essay (make sure you have an introduction with a thesis, the body of your paper which includes text from the document to support your analysis about the document, and a conclusion summing up your efforts.), you are to answer the 5Ws and discuss any bias found in the documents.
First paragraph is included here, followed by a link for the post-grademark version of the full essay.
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Analysis of “Opposing Viewpoints, American and Soviet Perspectives on The Cold War”
Textbooks call it “The Collapse of the Grand Alliance” (Duiker 645), while US media and news outlets during the ‘60s and ‘70s styled it simply “The Cold War” on their nightly broadcasts. It was a time of much uncertainty, in all walks of life, as citizens of the former Alliance maintained a state of perpetual readiness for the potential of resumed hostilities. The reality of the situation goes far deeper; these words convey only hint of the vehement animosity that gripped the world stage in the aftermath of World War II. The cold war was perhaps the very first of its kind, a psychological war fought via command chain word-of-mouth and mass media propaganda and the preemptive building up of martial defenses, for the sole purpose of self-justifying the ideals upon which two world powers were based.
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