Prompt: The Cold War looms large in 20th century history, and especially in our understanding of American history. The Cold War impacted both the U.S. approach to the world and America’s domestic politics and culture. Which of these – U.S. foreign policy or U.S. domestic life – do you find were impacted the most by the Cold War? In other words, which changed more because of the Cold War, American foreign policy or American society? In answering this question you may elect to write about just the early Cold War era, to pick and choose other key moments during the Cold War, or to cover the entire Cold War period. Either way, be sure to consider the Cold War both as an international conflict and as a domestic affair, and t9o incorporate specific examples from the readings and podcasts in order to support your arguments.
Papers that incorporate outside sources will automatically receive failing grades. Only use the attatched textbook PDF, attached primary source links, and the attached podcast episodes.
For this assignment, you must follow these citation guidelines: You do not need to include a works cited page since you are utilizing only course materials for this assignment. Your paper must be double-spaced, with standard 12-point font and normal margins. When citing the textbook, cite Davidson and the page number. For example: (Davidson, 338). When citing the The American Yawp Reader, cite the initials of the book title in italics, followed by the chapter number and document number. For example: (AYR, ch 16, doc 3). This example points us to the document entitled “Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth (1889),” which is the 3rd document in Chapter 16 of The American Yawp Reader. When citing the course podcasts, cite the podcast number and the timestamp within the episode that corresponds to the beginning of where the concept being quoted or paraphrased is mentioned. For example: (Podcast 1, 18:52). This example points to the section of podcast 1 that discusses vertical integration during the Second Industrial Revolution.
Thesis Statement – Is apparent & clear, nuanced, and provides strong analytic insight to the rest of the paper.
Primary Source Analysis – Specific description and perceptive interpretation of chosen American Yawp Reader documents; persuasive utilization of documents as examples advancing the paper’s main argument; meaningful reflection on the historical significance of the chosen sources
Secondary Source Analysis – Paper conveys nuanced understanding of key concepts from at least two different podcasts and two different chapters of the Davidson textbook; paper persuasively utilizes these secondary sources to provide detailed overview of the relevant historical context and to advance its core argument.
PRIMARY SOURCES:
ON THE BOTTOM OF BOTH LINKS THERE ARE LISTS OF PRIMARY SOURCES RELATED TO THE TOPICS. USE THOSE SOURCES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE!!!!!
MAKE SURE TO NOT USE ANY OUTSIDE SOURCES
USE BOTH ATTACHED PODCAST MP3 FILES AND THE ATTACHED TEXTBOOK PDF AS SECONDARY SOURCES
USE BOTH LINKS ABOVE TO GET THE PRIMARY SOURCES
