Unit 3--The Cold War and its Aftermath

Unit 3--The Cold War and its Aftermath

View YouTube clip (5:15) of Winston Churchill's speech with "Iron Curtain" here

or

http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=429
or
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/winstonchurchillsinewsofpeace.htm

Text with RealAudio
http://www.hpol.org/churchill/

Winston Churchill speeches in the Internet Public Archive
http://www.archive.org/details/Winston_Churchill

13MB MP3
http://www.archive.org/download/Winston_Churchill/1946-03-05_BBC_Winston_Churchill_The_Sinews_Of_Peace.mp3


Extensive Background Reading material
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Curtain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989

Another Cold War metaphor from this side of the Iron Curtain:

In 1983, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone pledged to make Japan an "unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Pacific", assisting the U.S. in defending against the threat of Soviet bombers.

What was the atmosphere of growing up in the Cold War?

You may find it interesting to watch the 1951 film "Duck and Cover," which trained schoolchildren to survive nuclear attack.
http://www.archive.org/details/DuckandC1951
This is a very popular film in the Prelinger Film Archives. Why?

You could also see Atomic Alert (produced by the Encyclopedia Britannica), also from 1951
http://www.archive.org/details/AtomicAl1951

Our Cities Must Fight (1951)
This film encouraged citizens to not flee, to remain in the cities to fight, even after a nuclear war.
http://www.archive.org/details/OurCitie1951

You can see from these films that by 1951 the Cold War (Or Hot Peace?) was at a high level of fear, paranoia, propaganda, and hysteria.

Have a look at another great public speaker from the middle of the Cold War period, American civil rights leader Martin Luther King.



"I have a Dream" 1963-08-28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk
Read the transcript
http://www.mlkonline.net/dream.html
Download in various formats
http://www.archive.org/details/MLKDream
VOA Special English news reports/remembers MLK
http://www.voanews.com/english/Martin-Luther-King-Jr-Remembered.cfm

How about something much more recent? Is Barack Obama a great public speaker? Watch and decide.
The Inauguration of Barack Obama 2009-01-20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PuHGKnboNY