This exercise will lead into the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam in subsequent lessons. My classroom is in a basement room, with only one window of walls, so I thought it would be reasonable to cordon off a corner of this room. I thought that building a mock fallout shelter in the classroom would help students realize that people were really serious about this fear. There was a market for building a bomb shelter, later called a “fallout shelter,” because people would have to survive nuclear fallout. In the United States, the idea of finding a place to be safe became popular during the 1950’s, into the 1960’s. The idea of survival was nothing new in Europe, for example, where bombing was a part of life during World War II. In the late 1950’s, the race for space heated up between these two powers and people were even more uncertain about the future. Two world powers-the United States and the USSR-had the power to unleash these monsters and destroy the world. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 showed the devastation that could be unleashed. Coupled with the fear of Communism was the fear that the world would be destroyed by nuclear weapons. It is difficult for students in 2010 to comprehend the fear that existed following World War II, regarding Communism and the United States being attacked and/or conquered by Communism.
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