War of the Worlds Broaddcast Fiasco

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were calamitous airstrikes that left thousands of people perished and with brutal trauma. In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, the government produced mini air strikes to induce terror into the citizen’s mind allowing the government to feed off that terror. Furthermore, the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and 1984 have segments of divergence and parallel structures.

The day that the bomb was dropped, it was described as a quiet early morning, and the people who had lived through it had described the bomb exploding as a bright flash in the sky. The characters in the story were described as calm and relaxed until the bomb had dropped. After the destruction was over the entire city was in fear of what had happened because they thought it was an everyday drill. The people of Hiroshima didn't know that the sirens were not a drill since they had drills every other

The author of the book, John Hersey, had a good purpose in telling so many individual anecdotes about the life before the bomb. He focused on expressing the stories of these survivors in a way in which the reader could see it from their point of view. His aim was to demonstrate that each individual was a real human being with real feelings just like us. The author seeks to make sure that readers understand that the bombings happened to people who had a daily life and were astonished by what had happened. Hersey demonstrates that the bombing impacted people who had previously been undergoing a lot in life.

The filmmakers’ main ideas are that the government misled and lied to the people of the U.S. so that they would believe that the atomic bomb would have no effect on their health and security, that we should question if the government should have lied to the American people, and to make us question whether or not the citizens of the U.S. would continue to be as naive as the people of the 1950’s.

The focus on the radio also has a mythic quality that expands our understanding of WWII. According to Doerr, his title ”All the Light we Cannot See” was inspired by the idea of modern communications carrying messages and information through the air by way of invisible

“Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II. Their crime? Being of Japanese ancestry”(History par.1) all because people were scared which is a form of mass hysteria. Mass Hysteria is the cause of many panics across the world such as in Le Roy High School in New York where multiple girls suffered a twitch disorder much like tourettes and then in Tanzania when villages west of Lake Victoria experienced an epidemic of laughing and crying. Similar outbreaks have been reported in schools in europe and the US”(Waller par. 2). Most cases of mass hysteria all have different causes and there are three which are most common. Throughout history, mass hysteria has been caused by fear, attention and rumors, and even a psychic contagion.

So what did the people have to rely on for coverage of the war? They relied on Hollywood to tell of WWII’s heroic stories. The movie industry had taken over this generation as we became less of an intellectual and relied more on visual effects and entertainment for information. In the movies, viewers were lead on to believe that most wars scenes were about killing the evil bad guy and reigning in patriotic glory. While the “bad guys” got blown into oblivion, American soldiers rarely died, got injured, even bled for that matter. But not only did the movies warp how American’s viewed war, but the media had a twisted input on it as well. “But the news wasn’t manipulated only by censors. John Steinbeck, a tough minded writier who exposed human misery during the Depression, admitted that as a war reporter he deliberately slanted his stories to omit anything that might shock civilians. He didn’t report on the rotten conditions suffered by the infantry… (Adams 9). Eisenhower even said that “public opinion wins wars” (Adams 10). The news was altering the truth, and reporting it back to their loyal audiences all across America. Magazines like the Reader’s Digest boomed in the 1930’s with short and sweet stories that offered optimistic views towards the war (Adams 11).

I almost spit take my water. “Yo-you worked from the rooftops during bombings?!” I exclaimed. “That’s a risky move.”

The United States government has historically used propaganda to entice, encourage, and even shame a person into enlisting in to the uniformed services and/or supporting the war effort. The effective use of propaganda does not only affect the American public’s opinion of a war and its leaders, but also affects their commitment to the war effort. Ineffective use (or lack of) of propaganda can lead to resentment and undermine public trust in its leaders and their ability to lead the nation. This essay will show how the use of media has either supported or hindered the effective use of governmental propaganda in influencing the American public during times of war and why is it sometimes not important to know what is the “whole truth.” The areas that will be covered will be the propaganda used during the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I-II, the Cold War/Vietnam, and also it’s affect on public opinion.

This investigation assesses to what extent the atomic bomb was necessary to end the Second World War. This investigation will be limited to the years 1939 to 1945, the duration of World War II, to assess the justifications for the bombing. However, this investigation will also examine sources as recent as the 2010s to evaluate the objective necessity of the bombing because it has remained a consistently controversial topic despite the time difference. Additionally, the necessity of the bomb is a matter that is independent from the initial bombing because its effect went beyond just ending the war, and, contextually, it is essential to examine its causes and effects with respect to events both before and after the war. Throughout this investigation, novels, memoirs, and web articles will be analyzed with evaluations of their origins, purpose, values, and limitations.

was not the truth. This book showed the harsh reality of war that most people

Even though the broadcast contained a number of explanations that the radio play was in fact fictional, people let their imaginations run wild and rumors spread like wildfire. Panic was widespread; people of all social and economic classes behaved irrationally (Naremore). People packed roads and churches, hid in cellars and loaded their guns. They flooded newspaper offices, radio and police stations with calls about fleeing their cities or protecting themselves from gas raids. In Newmark, New Jersey, 20 families rushed out of their houses with wash cloths on their faces to protect them against the poisonous gas. Scores of adults reportedly required medical attention for shock and hysteria (Lovgen).

One scientist from the Manhattan Project, the creators of the atomic bomb, in response to Hersey's article in the New Yorker wrote, "I am filled with such shame to recall the whoopee spirit, at the announcement of bombing Hiroshima" (The New Yorker). This type of reaction, after reading Hersey's vivid work on the Hiroshima bombing, is understandable and expected.

The end of World War II was not just the end of a war, but also the beginning of a tense and dynamic period that affected society on all levels. This “postwar” period, as it became known, shaped the world, as we know it today; likewise, the period was shaped itself both by the war that had preceded it, and the powerful forces that surrounded it. As the energy of fundamentally different ideologies, Communism and Democracy collided with advances in science such as the nuclear bomb, a dangerous environment ensued that created an atmosphere of paranoia throughout the world and especially, within America.

The future generations were effected most of all as the thought of death and propaganda of the red scary drove their parents into a fear life they began to raise paranoid children. These children were forced to practice air raid drills and many others terrifying thing. Other thing the parent’s paranoia leads to was how so city and family would have bomb shelter at the ready a great example giving by Alice L. George as she talks about how the American began to panic so badly they began to build bomb shelters in their homes and how they were prepared to stay within these shelters for “days or weeks” (George 22). As this shows the parents paranoia the children were just pass these skill of panicking and living in fear all the time as they would practice these drills at home and school and vice versa this end turn would cause fear to anyone. These thought of nuclear wasteland where spreading threw out the youth fast as most kid within the 1960’s believe that the end of the world or nuclear end was on the way as no one could stop it. These future kids and people of these nations weren’t just the only thing that the countries had to deal with when it affected their counties but also the world and it mass chaos to this new news of coming so close to war.