American Society in the Cold War Era HST/175 Version 2 1 University of Phoenix Material American Society in the Cold War Era Complete both parts of this assignment. Part A: American Culture and Society in the 50s From the following two lists, choose five events from each column. Identify the basic facts, dates, and purpose of the event in two to three sentences in the Identify column. Include why the event is significant in the significance column, and add a reference for your material in the reference column. Fabulous 50s Culture The Hula Hoop Disneyland McDonalds The Mickey Mouse Club Interstate Highways Dishwashers Drive-in Theaters Levittown Leave it to Beaver I Love Lucy American Bandstand Elvis Presley Chuck Berry James Dean Beats Reverand Billy Graham Cold War Society Red Scare House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) Ronald Reagan (President of the Screen Actors Guild, not as the future U.S. president) Senator Joseph McCarthy Fallout Shelter Duck and Cover Drill CIA Sputnik Cuba and Fidel Castro Cold War Propaganda Alger Hiss The Korean War Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Event Identify Significance Reference Part B: Select and complete one of the following: Option 1: Cold War Soviet Spy Option 2: Red Scare and McCarthyism Option 1: Cold War Soviet Spy For this assignment, imagine you are a Soviet (USSR) spy during the 1950s Cold War-era. You have been instructed to write an encrypted letter to your Soviet contact explaining the recent past and current U.S. Cold War policies, events, and practices. Once you have completed this letter, you will mail it to your contact in Paris, so he or she, in turn, will forward the message to a KGB agent in Moscow. Resource: University of Phoenix Material: Historical and Scholarly Sources Review the Historical and Scholarly document in this week’s reading. Complete a thorough investigation on actual Soviet Spies in the 1950s. You may use your textbook, primary and secondary sources, scholarly sources, and newspapers/magazines. Create a letter of 700- to 1,050 words. You may use the letter template below. Include at least five of the following events/policies: · NATO · The Marshall Plan · Warsaw Pact · The Truman Doctrine · National Security Council Document Number 68 (NSC-68) · Korean War · The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · Containment · Eisenhower Doctrine · Hungarian Revolution · American U-2 Spy plan (1960) Include one source for this assignment. Format the text of your letter consistent with appropriate course-level APA guidelines. Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files tab.Option 2: Red Scare and McCarthyism In this scenario, you are a set designer for a Hollywood movie production company in 1952. You decide to write a letter to the editor of the Los Angeles Times against Senator Joseph’s McCarthy’s anti-communist pursuit of the entertainment industry in Hollywood. .