The Red Iceberg

The Red Iceberg

American propaganda in the Cold War

[ID: Comic titled "The Red Iceberg" with Uncle Sam on a ship labeled "USA" about to run into a red iceberg with multiple tombstones with "Poland," "Hungary," "North Korean," Czechoslovakia," "East Germany," and "China" on them. /end ID]

Analysis
Deliberate: premeditated
Systemic: part of a methodical and organized campaign by Catholic Schools
Attempt: perceptual, cognitive  
Shaping Perceptions: language ("beware," "Red"), image (hammer and sickle, red, Titanic imagery, Uncle Sam, "dead" countries)
Achieve a Response: anti-Communist perception and sentiment

An Anti-Communist Comic Book Warns of "The Red Iceberg." Unknown, SHEC: Resources for Teachers. Accessed February 2022. https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/661. 

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