Cold War Cartoons Q: What is the message of this Cartoon? Use details of the cartoon and your own

knowledge to explain your answer [7].

REMEMBER!!!!! MESSAGE – The main message of the cartoon is…CONTENT – In the cartoon… CONTEXT – At the time that the cartoon was published…Make sure you use the Provenance (information that you are given about when the cartoon was published, by whom + other names and titles on the cartoon)

A French cartoon from 1950 called “The Russian Dance”.

A British Cartoon from June 1947.

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A British cartoon from 1947. The man lifting the curtain is Molotov, the Russian Foreign Minister. The other two men are the British and American Foreign

Ministers (Ernest Bevin & James Byrnes).

An American cartoon from 1947.

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An American cartoon from 1947 called “Can he Block it”?

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A British cartoon from 1948.The Black pieces are labelled “Eastern Bloc and

Berlin Airlift”. The White pieces are labelled “Airlift” and “Atlantic Pact”. The piece being played has

General Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower’s Head on Top. He was the Head US General in Europe from 1943-45 and went on to be US President from 1952-1960.

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