The Robot Spy Analysis

In the television shows we watched, there was a clear representation of the fear and developing hatred for communism. In Jonny Quest 's "The Robot Spy” (1964), American fears of foreign spy technology was being used to connect to the audience. In the episode, the Chinese were used to represent Communism with “Dr. Zin” as the antagonist. I feel that this show utilized the common fear of the Chinese/Communism along with American desire for a fire fight to end their worries (as long as it ended in American success) in order to relate to the audience and satisfy their fears against Communism. While Jonny Quest was meant to be an fictional, yet realistic possibility, Sledge Hammer 's "Comrade Hammer" (1987) made light of Communism and the Russians

At face value, Americans and Russians cannot be told apart. However, at their core, or under their disguise as a woman, they are fundamentally different. Unlike Communists, Americans wanted to stay out of global politics. However, they came to realize that, as an example of independence and democracy, democracy must be protected. So, as a natural “enemy” to democracy, communism should be shut down (Gaddis 15, 22). The Cold War started off without America quite realizing the extent to Stalin’s plans, so we do what we always do – act as if nothing is happening, even if we know it is. To put up the façade of strength and kindness while garnering more support for the American way of life/turning more people against Stalinism, we put The Marshall Plan into action (Gaddis 31). This was a smart move, as it allowed the U.S. to seem supportive and made Stalin’s decisions expose himself as the cruel dictator he was. Stalin refused to allow any outside help to be given to those starving people under his control, thinking they would be swayed away from communism. This manipulative plan gave the Americans a cause for arming themselves with powerful weapons. Stalin was mistreating his people as Hitler did – this was

Reaching a happy medium, the Korean War, eventually, gave Americans the opportunity to fight the ongoing battle. In Korea, there were no strategically sound places to drop an atomic bomb, so that issue was (thankfully) nonexistent (Gaddis 59). As the film The Korean War, Pt. 1: Making of a Bloodbath explained, as North Koreans’ access to their supplies weakened while they made their way down the peninsula, their grip on South Korea weakened. The Korean War, although desired by those in charge back home, had been terrifying and lethal to the men on the battlefield. Slowly, more UN forces began to back up South Korea and pushed North Korea back, but only to the original line of demarcation. Nobody truly won here, so the Americans would, understandably, be on