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This 3 page paper argues that the Cold War was based on faulty assumptions, and tries to understand why they were widely believed. Bibliography lists one source.
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each other, waving swords and making threatening noises, and yet both were terrified the other would actually launch an attack. But to the people who lived through it, it
wasnt at all comical, it was terrifying, since everyone knew that one ill-considered move could result in all out nuclear war. The constant tension produced what is probably the
single most important aspect of the Cold War, and one which is reflected in the movies and TV of the time: paranoia. But it was even more than that, it
was a particular type of paranoia: the fear of brainwashing (Tibbets, 1997, p. 14). The 1950s are the decade most closely associated with the Cold War movies, and one of
the most typical, in fact the one that "set the standard for anti-Communist pictures," was Big Jim McClain starring John Wayne, made in 1952. (Tibbets, 1997, p. 13). "This
was particularly ironic ... in that Wayne, who successfully evaded military duty during the war, did not become a devout anti-Communist until around 1948, when the victory of pro-blacklist forces
made it expedient for him to do so" (Tibbets, 1997, p. 13). But perhaps the greatest impact on American films came with the revelation that American prisoners of war
had been "brainwashed" during their captivity in Korea (Tibbets, 1997). In fact, brainwashing became "the ultimate Cold War fear" (Tibbets, 1997, p. 14). The fear that brainwashing aroused
in Americans seems largely to be based on the idea that if "science could unlock the secrets of nuclear fission, it could also unlock the mysteries of the human mind"
(Tibbets, 1997, p. 14). The idea of brainwashing is to convince the person being brainwashed that his beliefs are wrong, and that his enemys viewpoint is correct.
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