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Examples Of Primary Source Analysis Of The Cold War

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History Term Project: Primary Source Analysis

Danielle Marshall
Professor Ahad Hayaud-Din & Professor Sinclair
1301-2305 Learning Community
Fall Semester 2017
2379 Words
November 25, 2017

The United States has had many foreign and domestic problems that shaped American society; fear, impacted civil liberties, escalated worldly crises and evoked counter threats from the start of the Reconstruction era throughout our nation’s current history. Some of these problems were depicted in political cartoons, newspaper articles, presidential speeches, proclamations, and photos. Many cruelties in the Reconstruction era came from racial violence, nationalism, and American Imperialism as implied in these documents.
In one cartoon titled Miss …show more content…

Clearly, factors other than racial equality were on the line when President Eisenhower directed troops into Little Rock, to carry out a school desegregation law. With vast media coverage, the whole world was observing as the Little Rock situation played out. The Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, expressed his distress about the repercussions that the crisis may have on the country’s global influence and reputation. How could the United States defend that its way of democracy was a role model for other nations to peruse, when racial segregation was admissible? In relation to the Cold War, when trying to obtain support of other people from other countries, the perception that American democracy was just a system of authority was considered to be a critical national defense issue. One of the factors that motivated President Eisenhower’s handling of the crisis, was the impact that racial discrimination had on foreign relations during the Cold War, which made it imperative for civil rights …show more content…

I do not believe you can have a positive view on American history during the Cold War with the Soviets. President Reagan attempted to set America apart from the Soviets by using faith and freedom as the framework of our nation. Acceptance and understanding is a far greater tool as demonstrated by President Obama. The Soviets were not an evil empire and people living in the USSR could just as well have had faith and traditions just as those in the U.S. President Reagan should not have called Soviets an evil empire and inferred that the U.S. was in a good vs. evil battle with the Soviets and played into the hearts of individuals in the nation. This was simply not true. The USSR and U.S. had different ideologies but neither had malicious intentions of destroying the world even when President Reagan called out communism to be eliminated with the help of God. I do not like nor appreciate that President Reagan used the religion card for the destruction of another nation, especially one as vast as the USSR. However, I do completely see where President Obama is coming from, why he was speaking about race, and agree with his belief to move on from America’s past and in a true positive direction. From listening to Obama’s speech, I can see that President Obama had true intentions to unify the country and make it a better place for

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