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American History in Film

Chapter 18Cold War Conflicts

Pages 602-627

Section One - Origins of the Cold War

Directions: Fill in the chart listing aimsof the United States and the Soviet Union in Europe after the war.

United States / Soviet Union
Similarities
Which country was more responsible for the Cold War? WHY?
Directions: Fill in the graphic organizer .Explain how each item listed implemented the policy of containment.

Evaluate Truman as a world leader

  • Behavior toward Stalin
  • Economic support of European nations
  • Support of West Berlin

Key Terms People to Know

Soviet communism

Joseph Stalin

United Nations

Potsdam Conference

Satellite nations

Containment

“iron curtain”

Cold War

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Berlin Airlift

NATO

Section Three - The Cold War at Home

Match the terms in the box to the descriptions below.
HUAC
Bomb Shelters
___ 1. The senator led a major investigation to seek out communists in the United States.
___ 2. The former State Department official was accused of passing classified information to the Communist party.
___ 3. The organization’s purpose was to make sure that government employees were not communists.
___ 4. Convicted and executed for supplying the Soviet Union with information about the atomic bomb.
___ 5. This organized “witch hunt” of suspected communists ruined many American lives and careers.
___ 6. This was instituted by Hollywood executives to identify people having a Communist background.
___ 7. This House committee was charged with investigating any Communist influence in the United States.
___ 8. After refusing to sign an affidavit indicating that he was never a member of the Communist party, he had his passport revoked and blacklisted at home.
___ 9. Passed over the veto of President Truman, this law made it unlawful to plan any action that might lead to the establishment of a totalitarian dictatorship in the United States.
___ 10. Termed “unfriendly” witnesses, these representatives of the film industry were imprisoned for not testifying before a House committee.

Section Four - Two Nations Live on the Edge potential for nuclear destruction

Color the NATO countries in one color and the Warsaw Pact countries in another. Complete the map by

labeling the countries with numbers of countries you identified for each alliance.

NATO

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WARSAW PACT

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Complete the chart by describing the issues which arose between the United States and the Soviet Union

throughout the world.

Country / Problem / Critical Moment / Resolution
Egypt
Hungary

What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?

What was the new Premier of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev’s policy on Communism?

What event put the Soviet Union ahead of the United States in the “space race”?

Who was the pilot that flew U-2 spy missions over the Soviet Union?

Why was the U-2 Incident of extreme importance in the 1960s?

Key Terms People to Know

H Bomb

John Foster Dulles

Brinkmanship

CIA

Warsaw Pact

Eisenhower Doctrine

Nikita Khrushchev

Francis Gary Powers

U-2 incident

DOMINO THEORY

The Third Man Name______Period______

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Listening Skills Activity

Directions: The details listed below occur in the video. They are listed here in the order that you will hear them. Each detail is described so that you will easily recognize it when you hear it. You need to listen to the entire film to get all the answers. Before listening to the film, go over this sheet carefully so that you know what you are listening for. When you hear a detail, write the answer in the blank quickly, and then immediately begin listening for the next detail.

  1. Why does Martins come to Austria?
  1. What does Martins do for a living?
  1. How does the landlord say Lime died?
  1. Where did Martins meet Harry Lime?
  1. Why was Harry Lime’s death “the best thing that ever happened to him” according to Calloway?
  1. How does Martin react to Calloway’s accusations toward Lime? And why would he react this way?
  1. Why does Martins think it’s okay to say he is Mr. Dexter?
  1. Why does Martin distrust Kurtz?
  1. How does Kurtz say Harry died?
  1. What does Calloway say about “the hands of the guilty”?

Notice how each character represents a different nationality. Greene does this to put emphasis on the concept (parts which make a whole) presented by the setting in Vienna after WWII

From which nationality are the following characters?

Holly Martins______

Calloway______

Anna Schmidt______

Cooler______

Kurtz______

Paine______

  1. What does Martins find odd about the scene surrounding Harry’s death?
  1. What three benefits does Calloway say Holly Martins has over professionalinvestigators?
  1. Where does Holly go after leaving Dr. Winkler’s house?
  1. Why does he later regret going there?

Notice Herr Koch’s testimony presents new evidence to the “crime.” He does not present this evidence to the police because he is Austrian. Currently in Vienna there are four powers in charge and none of them would be sympathetic to him.So he keeps his information to himself. Perhaps he tells Martins because as a friend of Harry’s he will rent the apartment and therefore Koch can make some money off the space.

  1. Prediction: Who do you think is “the third man” at the scene?
  1. Who took all of Lime’s papers?
  1. How does Cooler know Anna Schmidt?
  1. Describe Martins’ view of Anna Schmidt.
  1. Why is there a crowd outside Koch’s flat?
  1. What is ironic about Martins’ saying, “I lost my way” at the end of this chapter?
  1. What does Martin say he’s going to call his new book?
  1. What was Lime’s racket?
  1. What is about to happen to Anna?
  1. Who is the man at the doorway? What is his expression?
  1. What happens on the Ferris wheel?
  1. The line about the Borgias in Italy and the cuckoo clock (affectionately called the cuckoo clock speech-look it up) is famous. What does Lime mean when he says it? What is he saying about post-war Vienna or even about the Soviets?
  1. The sewer scene is almost famous. What happens there? What is the contrast between the sewers and above ground? Is Lime really dead? How do you know this?

Invasion of the Body SnatchersName______Period______

Date______Score______

Listening Skills Activity

Directions: The details listed below occur in the video. They are listed here in the order that you will hear them. Each detail is described so that you will easily recognize it when you hear it. You need to listen to the entire film to get all the answers. Before listening to the film, go over this sheet carefully so that you know what you are listening for. When you hear a detail, write the answer in the blank quickly, and then immediately begin listening for the next detail.

1.InThe Invasion of the Body Snatchersthe camera style and settings help interpret a film's narrative. What do the dark, shadowy images and the narrow constricted settings of thefilm noirsay about life in Santa Mira?

2.How are Miles Bennel (Kevin McCarthy) and Becky Driscoll (Dana Wynter) different from the rest of the townspeople, and how does her strapless dress serve to point up these differences? Consider their marital status, their having traveled, and their families.

3.Is any connection to be implied between the facts that he lives alone and that he escapes the pod people?

4.What significance would you attach to the fact that parents (or relatives with parental status) are instrumental in their children (including their grown children) becoming pod people?

5.The transformation of typical Americans into emotionless automatons without altering their physical appearance is the most frightening (or at least the most unnerving and symbolically significant aspect of the film. How would you interpret this motif. What does it imply about the dangers facing Santa Mira, a microcosmic version of 1950s America?

6.In encouraging Bennel to cease resisting and join the pod generation, the psychiatrist Dr. Kauffman (Larry Gates) says the pod people live in a world where "there's no pain, no need to love, only the instinct to survive." And Bennel adds, "where everyone's the same." Is this to be taken as warning about the "togetherness" prized in Cold War America or a warning about the dangers of Soviet communism? Or both?

7.Becky Driscoll asks the film's crucial question: "Where do they come from?" Bennel suggests atomic radiation of a strange alien organism. How to the anxieties raised by the Cold War figure in these explanations?

8.Finally, the big question. What, in fact, do the pods represent? Is that representation genuinely ambivalent or merely evasive, a way of pleasing an audience with widely divergent political and ideological views?

9.The horror genre has tended to depend on two basic narrative patterns. In the first, the central characters journey into a world separate from everyday reality where the ordinary laws of nature do not seem to apply. In the second, the central characters discover that their everyday world has been invaded by the uncanny and the alien. How does the film serve as an example of each type of the horror meta-narratives at the same time that they embody the two threats posed by the Soviet Union?

10.Why might the horror and science fiction genres be regarded as particularly well-suited to dramatizing Cold War ideas and attitudes?

Write five GOOD questions about Dr. Strangelove in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper.

When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

Student 1
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