Informative Essay: The New Cold War
Only time will tell if this New Cold War will come to fruition, or if it’s just a scare tactic for countries involved to not continuously continue down a certain political and military path. Three people were interviewed regarding their knowledge of the cold war for the purposes of this paper. The names of the interviewees are Brandon Fields, Douglas Fields and Cassondra Ward Regis. Brandon Fields, age 25 and Douglas Fields, age 57 are family members who live back home in Richmond Virginia and Cassondra Ward, age 30, is a co-worker who lives in Alexandria, Virginia. The only interviewee who could remember a full phrase from the Cold War was Cassondra. She quotes JFK’s A wall is a whole lot better than a war phrase. She stated that “This
was John F Kennedy's thoughts on the construction of the Berlin wall” (C. Ward, personal communication, June 14th, 2016). Brandon Fields didn’t remember any phrases and Douglas Fields couldn’t remember a whole phrase related to the Cold War either. All of the interviewees knew that the main two players were the United States and Russia along with their allied countries respectively. The events related to the Cold War that were given by Brandon was Vietnam. Douglas and Cassondra both mentioned the fall of the Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile crisis as related events. Douglas also mentioned the Vietnam war as an event that occurred during the Cold War. As far as learning about the Cold war during school, Cassondra claimed that she learned about the Cuban Missile Crisis and Berlin Airlift. Douglas Fields stated “We learned about what was happening the older that I got. For example, during Middle and High School, the Vietnam War and it’s handling was of course a topic of debate. The U.S. versus the communist thing was also thrown in by the teachers when they would discuss the War. It just seemed like it was the politics of the history teacher that supported whether Vietnam was just or not” (D. Fields, personal communication, June 16th, 2016). Brandon basically claimed that the only thing he can remember learning about the Cold War in school was about the Vietnam War.
was John F Kennedy's thoughts on the construction of the Berlin wall” (C. Ward, personal communication, June 14th, 2016). Brandon Fields didn’t remember any phrases and Douglas Fields couldn’t remember a whole phrase related to the Cold War either. All of the interviewees knew that the main two players were the United States and Russia along with their allied countries respectively. The events related to the Cold War that were given by Brandon was Vietnam. Douglas and Cassondra both mentioned the fall of the Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile crisis as related events. Douglas also mentioned the Vietnam war as an event that occurred during the Cold War. As far as learning about the Cold war during school, Cassondra claimed that she learned about the Cuban Missile Crisis and Berlin Airlift. Douglas Fields stated “We learned about what was happening the older that I got. For example, during Middle and High School, the Vietnam War and it’s handling was of course a topic of debate. The U.S. versus the communist thing was also thrown in by the teachers when they would discuss the War. It just seemed like it was the politics of the history teacher that supported whether Vietnam was just or not” (D. Fields, personal communication, June 16th, 2016). Brandon basically claimed that the only thing he can remember learning about the Cold War in school was about the Vietnam War.