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An Overview of The Cold War
An Overview of The Cold War
An Overview of The Cold War
1947-1991
How can a war be
‘ cold ’ ?
What were the
hotspots of the Cold
War?
Cold War?
The tension and rivalry between the USA and
the USSR was described as The Cold War
(1945-1990).
There was never a real war between the two sides
Annihilation.”
Uneasy allies in WW II
Germany - divided
Germany, which had been ruled
by the Hitler and the Nazis until
their defeat in 1945 was split in
two.
The western side became West
communist country.
HOSTILE YEARS:
1947-1969
After World War 2 the Cold War began
and caused tension throughout the
world.
The USA and the USSR were the
two world Superpowers.
The USA was a capitalist society
with a democracy.
The USSR was a communist
weapons/bombs.
The USA and the USSR were in competition with
Soviet nukes
would have been
poised just 90
miles from the
Florida coast!
The Vietnam War
c.1963-1975
A sociological perspective?
Let’s use our SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION to take
a look at our THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES…
Class/group struggles
ng:
Conflict Theory-
Capit
alists
vs.
Com
muni
sts
Functionalism-
Why did people join the communist movements?
Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land
to public purposes.
A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by
the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the
improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common
plan.
Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies,
especially for agriculture.
Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries;
gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country
by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
Roles
Values
Self-design
Propaganda:
A new image of the
working class,
empowering,
hopeful, thriving…