The Cold War - Hearts and Minds | 2

American History Tellers

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🗓️ 3 January 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Forget trenches, infantry and tanks. The United States and Soviet Union fought the Cold War with ideas and information. Episode 2 describes the cunning of Soviet propaganda campaigns. The United States adapted those techniques for their own purposes, broadcasting an image of the nation as a beacon of hope and freedom through covert ops and jazz concerts alike - even if those at home were hurting or oppressed.

For more information on the subjects and themes discussed in the episode, see the book “Total Cold War,” by Kenneth Osgood. It’s essential to understanding how propaganda shaped policy and vice-versa during the Cold War.

Penny Von Eschen’s books, “Race Against Empire,” and “Satchmo Blows Up the World,” discuss at length the ways in which black American culture, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement both helped and hindered US foreign policy goals.

Finally, Audra Wolfe’s book, “Competing with the Soviets,” was crucial to our overall understanding of the Cold War.

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0:13.6	Imagine yourself in Brooklyn, 1948.
0:17.4	It's springtime, trees are just budding out.
0:20.5	It's Sunday, and everyone in your neighborhood is either cooking family dinner or getting
0:24.4	ready for church.
0:25.4	The smell of tomato sauce wafes in through the open windows.
0:29.4	You leave your wife in charge of the pasta so that you can take your elderly mother to
0:33.5	church down the street.
0:35.4	The pews are filled with familiar faces from the neighborhood.
0:38.7	Everyone's wearing their Sunday best.
0:40.4	The women in hats and nylons, the men in suits.
0:43.6	You stretch your neck.
0:44.9	Maybe you work in construction or maybe a new airplane factory.
0:48.4	But whatever you do, it doesn't usually involve wearing a tie.
0:52.0	All around you, greetings and Italian, the familiar scent of candle wax.
0:56.4	You settle in for mass.
0:58.5	All of this is routine, almost second nature to you.
1:01.7	That's why you notice immediately when the priest departs from the usual script.
1:06.4	His sermon barely touches on the gospel evening.
1:09.3	Instead, for a solid 10 minutes, he describes the horrors of life on the communism.
1:15.2	Unless something happens, the communists are going to win the upcoming election in Italy.
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