Sources Cold War

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Practice with sources

Sources

* Illustraion/explantion above the source

- Date

- What happend

- People in the source

- Important terms

Symbols in cartoons

A symbol in a cartoon is an image of something that stands for something else

- Event

- Country

- Person

Germany

Russia/Soviet Union

Great-Britain

US

Assignment 1

* Try to find all national symbols in the cartoons 1, 2 and 3

Think about flags, persons, animails, names

Source 1

Haan -> France

Hitler -> Germany

Bear -> Russia/Soviet Union

Source 2

Flag Soviet Union

Flag US

Source 3

Bear -> Soviet Union

U.S.S.R. -> Soviet Union

(Union of Soviet Socialists Republics)

Uncle Sam -> US

Deformation in sources

A change or exaggeration of a certain size, shape or emotion gives extra meaning to the symbols in the image

Source 4

Angry

Big

Soviet Union

East Germany

Every cartoon has a message

Source 5

Stalin and Lenin

* Gorbachev

The end of communism

Gorbachev  leads the funeral of communism

Assignment

Take a look at cartoon 2, 3 and 4

1. Which message does the author wants to convey? 

Source 2

Source 2

The Author finds the arms race nonsencial. If both sides continue to claim they are being pursued, they will continue to run in circles while the people suffer

Source 3

Source 3

The Soviet Union takes over Europe/ the world

While America just stands there, being helpless

Source 4

Source 4

All the people flee from East Germany through Berlin to West-Germany

East Germany isn't happy about it

Sources

* What are the thoughts of the author, reffer to the source .....

* Explain by using the source .....

* Support your answer with an example from the source

* Support your answer with a quote from the source

Question source 2

* The Iron Currtain didn't had the desired effect that the sovjet leaders wanted. Explain, by reffering to the source, what made that the currtain didn't had the desired effect.

Source 2

* In the source you can see people falling through a gap in the bag. Above the gap stands: Berlin. 

So the Iron Curtain didn't had the desired effect, because people fled through the gap in Berlin

Source 2

What is the authors opinion of the arms race? Reffer to the source.

Write the answer on your paper

Source 2

The source shows two atomic bombs who pursue each other while complaining about being followed. So the author finds the arms race nonsencial. If both sides continue to claim they are being pursued, they will continue to run in circles while the people suffer

A fragment from the dutch song 'over the wall' about East and West Berlin

Is this part of the song about East or West Berlin? Support your answer by referring to the source.

Source 6

People are walking past flags and banners

And statues of Lenin and Marx still abound.

[…]

But what kind of utopia is this,

If it’s still got high walls all around?

If you’re scared and too cautious to utter a sound.

Oh, what is that utopia? 

In the source stands: statues of Lenin and Marx still abound. So this fragment is about East Berlin because Lenin and Marx belong to communism

Source 6

People are walking past flags and banners

And statues of Lenin and Marx still abound.

[…]

But what kind of utopia is this,

If it’s still got high walls all around?

If you’re scared and too cautious to utter a sound.

Oh, what is that utopia? 

A fragment from the dutch song 'over the wall' about East and West Berlin

Is the author positive of negative about the capitalistic west? Support your answer by reffering to the source.

Source 7

But what is freedom without a home, whithout a job. (...) You can demonstrate, but with your back against the wall. And only if you have money, then freedom is not expensive.

In the source stands: you can demonstrate, but with your back against the wall. So the author is negative about the capitalistic west

Source 7

But what is freedom without a home, whithout a job. (...) You can demonstrate, but with your back against the wall. And only if you have money, then freedom is not expensive.

Note

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