Zach Collins Cartoon Analysis Cartoon A 2.

1962 coincides with increased us involvement in Vietnam from the United States under Kennedy, and the Cuba Missile Crisis. The cartoon is takes place at the same time the Soviet Union and United States were attempting to compromise, pulling missiles out of Cuba and Turkey. 3. International Downhill Race questions the ability of the world to stop the nuclear armament of the Soviet Union and United States. While on the skis of armament, the planet attempts to read a book on stopping, indicating that its struggles to find possibilities. The speed of armament and steepness of the slop signals that action must be taken urgently, before reaching an eventual bottom, at the end of the downhill race. Contemporary events, including heightened tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States over Cuba, parallel this urgency in resolving the issue of increased armament. Cartoon B 2. 1963 is post-Cuban missile crisis, and the presence of Kennedy, who was assassinated this year, means the cartoon coincides with the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Kennedys statement in the cartoon, shall we stop testing clubs, is representative of this test ban 3. John Collins here characterizes the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty as the [emergence] of an ice age], or the progression of Kennedy and Khrushchev from the Neolithic testing of clubs, or nuclear weapons, in an attempt to show dominance, to a consensus on stopping the tests. Interestingly, the nations of China and France, both advancing nuclear technology, are also featured. Cartoon C 2. 1968, most importantly for the context of this cartoon, was the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the First World War, and the cartoon celebrates the end of this war by comparing the current heightened conflict and tension, including the end of a Czechoslovakian revolt, the space race, and involvement in Vietnam. 3. The worldwide conflict and impact of the rise of nuclear weapons is shown, sarcastically, as having the possibility to start a war to end man, on the fiftieth anniversary of the war to end all wars. The United States gazes worryingly into the possibility of its death, concerned that current armament and conflict between the two superpowers would lead to nuclear attacks that would end the world. Fifty Years of progress sarcastically decrees that despite the supposed peace after WWI, war has actually progressed to the possibility of ending the world.