Refection on the Newspaper

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Reflection on the Newspaper Every member of the group played a major role in designing the newspaper. First, we reviewed the entire topic on the USSR and Western world involvement with the Cold War and supported the idea that "It was the actions and policies of the Soviet Union that led to the Cold War, not Western aggression.” Having decided this, Student 1 covered Soviet Expansionism, Student 2 dealt with the Berlin Blockade, and Student 3 handled the Cuban Missile Crisis. Student 4 worked on the design and images in the newspaper. The newspaper focuses on the aggressive steps the Soviet Union took, which might have resulted in Western aggression. It covers Soviet expansionism whereby Joseph Starling overthrew governments like Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary and used puppet communist governments to enlarge the USSR. The newspaper also covers the Berlin Blockade (1948-1949), when the USSR blockaded all land and water routes leading to Western Berlin. The US had to intervene and airlift food and supplies to support Berlin's freedom. It finally covers the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when the Soviet Union deployed missiles in Cuba, risking global nuclear war. Images in the newspaper represent the USSR's actions that caused the Cold War. History is wide, and covering the history of an event that took years before it could end in a single infographic medium could be challenging. However, a newspaper can make partial highlights on a topic to be discussed in later pages. The three-layered layout used in the gazette creates enough room for each of the three topics discussed and leaves enough room for images that appeal to the reader. Although our argument states that the Soviet Union started the Cold War, some argue that Western aggression might have been the cause. Ref argues that Western nations responded defensively to Soviet actions. For instance, the Marshall Plan, initiated by the United States in 1947, provided economic aid to war-torn Europe, which some saw as a threat to Soviet influence. Above that, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), formed in 1949, was a defensive military alliance among Western nations. This escalated tensions by countering Soviet expansion and contributing to the Cold War's onset. If we were to do the assignment differently, we could have made more sections to write content and make our information brief than in the first paper. We noticed that there are many topics that we could have added to support our ideas, like the Truman Doctrine and Containment of 1947. Still, we covered the most significant points for our discussion and did our best to make a clear and appealing newspaper.
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