Part I.
Introduction & Analyzing Primary Sources from the Cold War
Primary Source Worksheet (read, print, and bring to class)
U.S. and Soviet Documents from the early Cold War
Th 1/16 Discussion
of National Security Council Document 68 (NSC-68)
NSC-68 (read sections I-VI)
T 1/21 Discussion
of National Security Council Document 68 (NSC-68)
NSC-68 (read remaining sections, especially VII and IX)
Communists Should Not Teach in American Colleges
Anti-Communism at Columbia University
T 1/27 Discussion
of Red Scared, pages 89-end (especially pages 90-114), and the
following:
House
Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) Hollywood Hearings (for transcripts
of testimony, follow links from pictures at bottom of page, and read testimony
of Reagan, Disney, Cooper, and Rand)
Th 1/29 Film:
CNN’s Reds
Ron Radosh comments on CNN’s Reds (read before class)
Was McCarthy Right About Espionage? (read before class)
T 2/4 Film:
The Manchurian Candidate
Th 2/6 Film:
The Manchurian Candidate
Historical Commentary: “The Manchurian Candidate and the Cold War Brainwashing Scare” (read before class)
T 2/11 Public
Relations, Popular Culture, and the Bomb
(lecture and discussion)
Disaster Anxieties in 1950s and 2001 compared
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” Speech (December 1953)
Pamphlet: Facts About Fallout, six pages: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Pamphlet: Grandma’s Pantry
Pamphlet: Six Steps to Survival
Pamphlet: Family Survival
Images: Virtual Fallout Shelter Tours
Images: Civil Defense Supplies (3 pages)
Images: Civil Defense Art Galleries (4 pages)
Audio: Civil Defense Radio Spots
T 2/18 Film:
The War Game (banned-from-TV)
Th 2/20 Discussion
of On the Beach (read entire)
T 2/25 Film:
Dr. Strangelove
Th 2/27 Film:
Dr. Strangelove
Historical Commentary: “Just What the Doctor Ordered”
IMPORTANT NOTE:
There are journal and group
assignments for every section of the JFK Tapes.
Click here for description of assignments for The Kennedy Tapes.
T 3/11 Discussion
of The Kennedy Tapes, introduction, plus pages 1-30. CNN’s Cuba.
Background on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Th 3/13 Discussion
of The Kennedy Tapes, pages 30-142. Exerts from Thirteen Days.
JFK decides how to respond to presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
T 3/18 Discussion
of The Kennedy Tapes, pages 162-268. Exerts from Thirteen Days.
JFK announces quarantine and debates how to implement it. Khrushchev’s response; and UN Secretary-General U. Thant’s proposal.
Th 3/20 No
class.
T 3/25 Discussion
of The Kennedy Tapes, 268-end.
Exerts from Thirteen Days.
The crisis is revolved. Editor’s conclusions on The Kennedy Tapes.
Th 3/27 Special
Symposium on Student Activism sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta
University Center, Sugar Palm Room (2nd floor), 2pm. Attendance mandatory.
Click here to see announcements page for details.
T 4/1 Film:
CNN’s Spies
Last
Day to Turn in Essay #2 on Cuban Missile Crisis
Th 4/3 Intelligence
and the Cold War (lecture and discussion)
About COINTELPRO and list of documents (read short introduction)
Intelligence Activities And The Rights Of Americans (read entire summary)
Journals will be collected in class!
Th 4/17 Guest
Lecture on the International Dimensions of the Vietnam War: Dr. Robert J.
McMahon (University of Florida)
Friday 4/18: Required Event: Lecture on “Reagan, Gorbachev, and the End of the Cold War,” by Dr. Robert J. McMahon.
The lecture will be at 12pm, in the Majestic Palm Room of the University Center.
T 4/22 Film:
Hearts and Minds. Last day of class. And Last Day to Turn
In Essay #3!
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