HIS 356K Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Elizabeth Dilling, House Un-American Activities Committee, Mccarthyism
Document Summary
Review: propaganda in wwii: overarching themes, why we fought. Encouraging women to work and then telling them to return home after war. Four freedoms versus how it was actually carried out. Freedom of speech unless you"re a communist: how wii propaganda may have paved the way for cold war. Triumphalist despair and the cold war culture of containment: war stories: the free story of america and the war story ; or what westerns and world war ii films had in common, wwii and victory culture. Free story of america confirmed in wwii"s war story and in long line of. Americans could be sure of the rightness of their cause despite the uneasiness with wartime alliance: war epics and victory culture, uneasy alliances. Americans suddenly feared the bomb could be used against them: newest enemy was harder to define, harder to see and not just outside the nation but very possibly inside.
