The Cold War and everyday life – research task

In pairs you have two lessons to complete this table focusing on five aspects of the Cold War. You need to include an image of the aspect of the Cold War
you have chosen and a text box explaining how the Cold War impacted this aspect of daily life. You can remove the links when you hand this in and replace
it with your information. You must complete the one on HUAC and McCarthyism.
Hollywood https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture- Two images
Focus Points - magazines/science-fiction-films-and-cold-war-anxiety
How did the Cold
War influence the
type of films
popular in the
1950s and 1960s
– the peak of Cold
War anxiety –
about a certain
invention?

How had this

changed by the
late 1980s?

HUAC and https://study.com/academy/lesson/huac-definition-

McCarthyism trials.html
What does HUAC
stand for?
What did HUAC https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hollywood-
investigate? blacklist
Who was Josef
McCarthy and was
is meant by the
term
McCarthyism?

Art https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-
How was art art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html
used as a Russian version – socialist realism –
weapon in the http://theaestheticoftriumph.weebly.com/the-birth-
Cold War? of-socialist-realism.html
What message
 The USSR used their art style “Socialist
was the US
sending about its Realism” in order to create a heroic and
society through optimistic image where everyone is joyful and
funding abstract eager.
expressionism  In Socialist Realism, Stalin and Lenin are both
expressions in painted as caring, protective and insightful
comparison Soviet leaders of the USSR. Lenin was displayed as a
socialist realism? compassionate and wise man, whilst Stalin
Discuss how they was portrayed as the protector of the country,
differ. which is further implied from his military
uniform.
What type of  There were only three acceptable themes in
artists belong to Socialist realism:
the school of 1) The Great Leaders (Lenin, Stalin)
American abstract 2) Happy and Heroic Workers
expressionism? 3) The Accomplishments of Socialism

Sport
How did sporting
events become a
Cold War battle
ground?
East German
swimmers/ East
German sporting
teams/Steroids –
turn women
athletes into men
Blood in the water
Melbourne
Olympics 1956
Moscow Olympics
1980
Conflict
What is a proxy
war?
Investigate one
Cold War
superpower proxy
conflict.
Korea
Mau Mau rebels in
Kenya
Congo Crisis
1960-1965
Afghanistan 1980-
1989
Arab Irsaeli
Conflict 1948 -
present
Playgrounds
How did the Cold
War affect
playground
design?