Canada as seen through the Eyes of New Brunswick Editorial Cartoonists:
The Insight and Humour of Josh Beutel and Bill Hogan
Preface |
Introduction |
Editorial Cartoon Database |
Classroom Activities
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Josh Beutel, Telegraph Journal, 1979-2-13
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Reference number: MC2806-54
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Scope and Content
This illustration suggests the Soviets will have little trouble with the NHL all-stars as the Soviet hockey player relaxes with a yo-yo while hooking the NHLer with a sickle.
Title
Hung Up With Russia
Issues
Cold War (1945-1991)
The Cold War was a struggle between the world’s two major superpowers, the United States and the USSR, which emerged after WWII. This hostility was mainly based on a conflict of ideologies and political systems, that of communism in the USSR and democracy (and capitalism) in the United States. Never reaching a full-scale war, the Cold War was characterized by tension, competition, and subterfuge. Along with their allies (those in the Warsaw Pact with the USSR and NATO with the US), these nations engaged in an arms race that led to nuclear proliferation. This hostility ebbed and flowed for decades, coming to a head in the 1980s under the Reagan/Gorbachev administrations. The Cold War ended in 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.