The Cold War was an important event in United States history which occurred during the years of 1947-1991. During this time frame the world was at the greatest risk for the development of a third world war. The Cold war was not an actual war with contact fighting of both sides, but a conflict between western democratic nations and eastern communist nations which was more fear tactics and rivalry. The Cold War is a sensitive topic which should be refrained and be avoided from being discussed with children. The Cold War and The Butter Battle Book have similar and events which center around war, threats, and deaths. These topics should not be in a children's book.
The Cold War was highlighted by many events to include fear of a nuclear
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war with emphasis on an Atomic Bomb, dictating leaders, and the Berlin Wall. The United States and the Soviet Union shared a mutual distrust that existed for many years. Joseph Stalin who was a Soviet leader who led during the Cold War. At the time of his death, he was the most powerful man on earth. Another symbol in the Cold War was the Berlin Wall which at first was protected all around with barbed wire and made from concrete bricks and slabs. Events like this are serious and hard to believe that they could be found in a children's book. The Butter Battle Book is a children's book that discusses weapons and gives them silly names like Jigger-Rock Snatchem, Triple-Sling Jigger, Snick-berry switch, and Kick-a-Poo Kid. The main character is the grandpa which he mentions things like, "You should be down in that hole! And you're up here instead! But perhaps this is all for the better, somehow. You will see me make history! RIGHT HERE! RIGHT NOW!". The Yooks from the Zooks made it very clear that the Yooks, "as you know we eat breakfast or sup, spread our bread with the butter side up. And that's the right way." So, he made it clear that a Zook could not be trusted and that the Yooks were better than them because the Zooks ate their bread with butter side down which was the wrong way. At first the Wall was not that high and the Yooks could look any Zook square in the eye. Dr. Seuss mentions, that if a Zook came close to Grandpa he could give him a "twitch with his tough-tufted prickly Snick-berry switch." They finally came up with a gadget that was "newer than new and filled with mysterious Moo-lacka-Moo and can blow all those Zooks to Sala-Ma-Goo." The book ends with Grandpa holding the new "bopulous beep that could get rid of the entire town of Zooks that eat their bread with the butter side down." The reader is left wondering which of the two sides dropped the bopulous beep. The Butter Battle Book mirrors the important events from The Cold War by using children book characters and words.
The atomic bomb is represented by the bopulous beep and at the end of the book the two sides representing the Soviet Union and United States joke by saying, "Who's going to drop it? Will you...? Or will he...?". The leaders of war are Stalin and Grandpa which are similar to each other by the dedication they both have when it comes to protecting one another's country. They both believed that their way was better and the enemy was wrong in their beliefs. The Yooks and the Zooks would create better weapons when they saw that the other one was better than another. A similarity that jumped at me was the Walls. In the Butter Battle Book the Wall was not as high at first and the Yooks and the Zooks could see everyone straight in the eye. The Wall was built and constructed with barbed wires and concrete, just like The Berlin Wall which had the coils of barbed wire that crossed along to West Berlin made from concrete slabs and hollow blocks. These reasons among other more violent things that occur in war are seen throughout the Butter Battle Book and should not be in a children's …show more content…
book. The Butter Battle Book triggers immediately the events from The Cold War.
A book creates a vision as you read and children are too young to be idolizing war with weapons and walls. At the beginning of Dr. Seuss's children's book grandpa goes on to say the horrible things that Zooks do and that if you are a Zook you do things the wrong way and cannot be trusted. A child's mind should be filled with less adult topics like traveling to the moon, driving a race car, and exploring the ocean. Topics like these can further develop the way a child's mind thinks and produces knowledge. When educating children about war the seriousness should be communicated instead of making it silly and
laughable. In conclusion, any war creates division, whether if it is two sides to it like violence or brutal or a rivalry of choosing a better way of doing things. The Cold War and The Butter Battle Book are too similar that kids should not be planting seeds of violence in their heads at an early age especially in the laughable way that it is in the book. Children all around should not even have to be fooled that their colorful children's book is really talking about a topic like this. If their interest is The Cold War then they should be given facts, dates, and battle photos about it to see how it all happened and perhaps they would not pick a book like the Butter Battle Book. When a kid sees a Dr. Seuss book they think it will be a fun and humorous read but instead it's a book that they should not be reading, especially not on this topic.
The three connections between the Butter Battle Book to the Cold War are quite apparent. There is a wall separating different people, there is a different way of life, and there is a deterrent. The book by Theodor Guisel, also known as Dr. Suess, is almost a mirror image of the situation during the Cold War.
Dr. Seuss is an important figure in the lives of children everywhere. His stories are children’s classics that are fun to read and also tackle some real life issues. Dr. Seuss’s political views are very apparent in his some of his books like The Butter Battle Book, which discusses the issues of the Cold War.
Truman and the general have many similarities. Such as they were both "determined" ("Cold War.") and made tough decisions with their "heads held up high" (The butter battle book). Another comparison can be when Truman had all of a "suddenly become president" (Mcdougal and Hought 603) during the war and how the general, had all of a sudden been "voted and made... a general" (the butter battle book) during the war. Lastly, both Truman and the general were doubted by their people that they could win the war. Soviet leader Joesph Stalin and VanItch both have many similarities. Firstly, both are represented as "a very rude" (the butter battle book) and "distrusting" (Mcdougal and Hought 604) person. Another comparison can be that Stalin and VanItch were determined to vanquish their enemies with much force. Lastly, Stalin and VanItch both have "boys in their back room" (the butter battle book) to invent and to keep up with the latest inventions. One last invention that caused major conflict in the war was the atomic bomb in the cold war and the Big-boy boomeroo in the Butter Battle Book. Both the atomic bomb and the Big-boomeroo can cause lots of damage that can kill "millions of civilians" (Mcdougal and Hought 623) and both are filled with "tons of TNT" (623) or "mysterious Moe-hacka-moo" (the butter Battle Book). Major conflicts should not be expressed through
The Cold War was a period of dark and melancholic times when the entire world lived in fear that the boiling pot may spill. The protectionist measures taken by Eisenhower kept the communists in check to suspend the progression of USSR’s radical ambitions and programs. From the suspenseful delirium from the Cold War, the United States often engaged in a dangerous policy of brinksmanship through the mid-1950s. Fortunately, these actions did not lead to a global nuclear disaster as both the US and USSR fully understood what the weapons of mass destruction were capable of.
The Cold War in 1945 to 1953 brought about a period of tension and hostility due to the feud between the United States and the Soviet Union. The period began with the end of the Second World War. The situation acquired the title for there was no physical active war between the two rivals. The probability of the tension got to be the fear of the then rise in nuclear ammunition. Things began to roll when a US based U2 sky plane got to take photos of some USSR intermediate ballistic missiles with the capability of transporting nuclear heads.
The Cold War was the most important historic event in the 20th century after the Second World War, from 1945 till 1991 between two most powerful countries in that period – Soviet Union and USA. The Cold War invested a lot in world politics. What is the Cold War? This was a war for dominance in the world. In 1945 the USA was the only one country in the world that had the nuclear weapons. But in the 1949 USSR started to learn their nuclear weapons. In further developments forced the USSR was soon created by nuclear, and then thermonuclear weapons. (Isaacs J, 2008) Fight has become very dangerous for all.
The Cold War was a post-World War II struggle between the United States. and its allies and the group of nations led by the Soviet Union. Direct military conflict did not occur between the two superpowers, but intense economic and diplomatic struggles erupted in the country. Different interests led to mutual suspicion and hostility in a rising philosophy. The United States played a major role in the ending of the Cold War.
Ray Bradbury, from small town America (Waukegan, Illinois), wrote two very distinctly different novels in the early Cold War era. The first was The Martian Chronicles (1950) know for its “collection” of short stories that, by name, implies a broad historical rather than a primarily individual account and Fahrenheit 451 (1953), which centers on Guy Montag. The thematic similarities of Mars coupled with the state of the American mindset during the Cold War era entwine the two novels on the surface. Moreover, Bradbury was “preventing futures” as he stated in an interview with David Mogen in 1980. A dystopian society was a main theme in both books, but done in a compelling manner that makes the reader aware of Bradbury’s optimism in the stories. A society completely frightened by a nuclear bomb for example will inevitably become civil to one another. Bradbury used his life to formulate his writing, from his views of people, to the books he read, to his deep suspicion of the machines. . The final nuclear bombs that decimate the earth transform the land. The reader is left with the autonomous house and its final moments as, it, is taken over by fire and consumed by the nature it resisted. Bradbury used science fantasy to analyze humans themselves and the “frontiersman attitude” of destroying the very beauty they find by civilizing it.
As Garbarino recognizes, the effects of war and such violence is something that sticks with a child and remains constant in their everyday lives. The experiences that children face involving war in their communities and countries are traumatic and long lasting. It not only alters their childhood perspectives, but it also changes their reactions to violence over time. Sadly, children are beginning to play more of a major role in wars in both the United States and other countries.... ...
The Cold War was an argument between the Soviet Union and the United States of America after WWII. During WWII the USA and the Soviet Union were allies fighting a common cause: Adolph Hitler who was attempting to overthrow the surrounding countries. Although the USA and the Soviet Union were allies, the relationship between the two countries was very tense (What Was). Neither country trusted the other. After WWII their relationship became even more tense due to the building of new weapons capable of destroying entire countries.
The cold war era is when America was at its most suspicious and paranoid. The cold war grew out of tensions that were post WWII. Two worldly super powers clashed over rivalry and one wanted to have more influence. This rivalry went for almost half of the 20th century, and led to many international incidents that almost brought both powers to a mutual destruction.
War has always been something to be dreaded by people since nothing good comes from it. War affects people of all ages, cultures, races and religion. It brings change, destruction and death and these affect people to great extents. “Every day as a result of war and conflict thousands of civilians are killed, and more than half of these victims are children” (Graca & Salgado, 81). War is hard on each and every affected person, but the most affected are the children.
The Cold War is a term developed to represent the antagonistic relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union between the mid 1940s until the end of the 1990s. The development of tension between these two countries represented two differentiating perspectives on ideological that also impacted the rest of the world. As a result, I believe the Cold War still has an impact on our world today due to the constant issue of the security dilemma as well as the current relations countries have with each other.
Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signified, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold but not clothed." There was never a war that this idea can be more correct applied to than the Cold War. According to noted author and Cold War historian Walter Lippman, the Cold War can be defined as a state of tension between states, which behave with great distrust and hostility towards each other, but do not resort to violence. The Cold War encompasses a period from the end of the Second World War (WWII), in 1945, to the fall of the Soviet Union, in 1989. It also encompassed the Korean and Vietnam Wars and other armed conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, that, essentially, were not wars for people but instead for territories and ideologies. "Nevertheless, like its predecessors, the Cold War has been a worldwide power contest in which one expanding power has threatened to make itself predominant, and in which other powers have banded together in a defensive coalition to frustrate it---as was the case before 1815, as was the case in 1914-1918 as was the case from 1939-1945" (Halle 9). From this power contest, the Cold War erupted.
By another account, the Cold War began in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, having been a conflict between Bolshevism and Democracy. The Cold War got its name because both sides were afraid of fighting each other in such a “hot war”, nuclear weapons might destroy everything. So, instead, they fought each other indirectly. They played havoc with conflicts in different parts of the world. They used words as weapons.