History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1841 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Television and the Cold War
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The idea
Television carried family ideals in Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best, and Cold War fears in I Led Three Lives, about an FBI informer.
In practice
The Yawp's note that the FBI helped create such propagandistic films and shows.
Where people slip
Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, the Yawp adds, compared the Red Scare to the Salem witch trials.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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