answer the “spontaneous questions” and address “the emotional demands of a public already keyed to a certain pitch of interest in the subject.”45“As the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world,” the American motion picture should be utilized to “standardi...
American border, was located in the northern region where most of the mid-20th century beer companies, both large and small, were located.[7] In other words, the sample includes advertisements from a geographically wide range of breweries of various sizes. However, the biggest businesses had ...
Early in the war, there were plans to use local Lao tribes as part of an American-led resistance movement. This plan was forwarded to American Ambassador Sullivan who was concerned that it might be impossible to limit and control such an operation. Furthermore, if the resistance got into tro...
Louise Bourgeois’ (American, born France 1911) balsa wood "Sleeping Figure,"(1950), stands totem-like beside Krassner’s washes of blue and magenta stripes on a natural canvas ground; both the artist and the sculptor’s work resonate as creative kindred spirits, with Pollock hollering above ...
After the Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia, Czechs were admitted to the United States under the American Displaced Persons Act. The Czechoslovak National Council assisted these individuals in their struggle to regain their homeland, primarily through the publication of anti-Communist propaganda. In addit...
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Many US produced propaganda posters from World War II would typecast the Japanese as goofy and cartoonish. Buck teeth, big ears and an exaggeration on the eyes were recurring features. Together We Can Do It! This poster was created by the American Office for Emergency Management during World Wa...
See, for example, also, Carl Marklund and Klaus Petersen, "Return to Sender: American Images of the Nordic Welfare States and Nordic Welfare State Branding", European Journal of Scandinavian Studies, vol. 43, no. 2 (2013), 245–257. 28. Clerc and Glover, "Representing the Small States ...
Kennedy made it the nation’s goal to send an American to the moon by the end of the decade. It was 1961 when he made the declaration. In 1969 an American walked on the moon. They just made the goal. Read about the historic event. Fill in the Apollo 11 timeline piece. Here is a...
which had continued to hold the seat after losing the civil war with the Communists in 1945. In 1972 U.S. presidentRichard Nixonmade an official visit to China during which he agreed to the need for Chinese-American contacts and the eventual withdrawal of U.S. troops from Taiwan. In the...