Tuesday, 13 January 2015

The Atomic Age and Cold War

Between Capitalist USA and Communist Russia USSR

Capitalism - allowing competition in buissnesses and companies
Communism - aimed to make financial equality

USSR partitioned Berlin in 1946

Start of Cold War

CIA started in 1946

USSR developed nuclear weapons

MAD - mutually assured destruction

west germany was capitalist , east germany communist berlin wall separated areas later.

1949 poster Berlin Airlift

Propaganda in america that raised fears of communism. Captain America

B movies, invasion of the body snatchers, take over of communists
metaphors of communism threat

Jackson Pollok
Willem De c.
cia promoted and supported these artists. an artistic movement that proved creativity and intellectual freedom supporting capitalism.

russian art was a lot more restricted

abstract expressionism was the kind of art that made socialist realism look even more stylised and more rigid and confined that it was. and that relationship

stalin paintings with children, socialist realism

russian satellite sputnik lead to space race between isa and russia
battle of who has better technology

atomic bomb followed, lead to an arms race. mad meant that atomic bombs would be futile.

duck and dover film

1962 cuban missile crisis
jf kennedy and n castro

helen serrano

Vietnam War, martin luther king jr speech
white and negro bear the heaviest burdens both on the front and at home

1967 outside pentagon protest pictures

uncle sam, i want out

woodstock

space race still continuing, USA first lands on the moon

peter kennard 1980s r regan/m thatcher alliance

berlin wall set up and divides east and west germany
berlin wall art graffiti

























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