How did the media prolong cultural antagonism in the United States and the USSR between 1950- 1980 during the Cold War? To understand the media’s role in the prolongation of cultural antagonism in the U.S. and the Soviet Union, it is important to first understand the media in its correct historical context. In this time, the media predominately consisted of television, radio, print, and film. This of course was prior to the popularity of decentralized media institutions such as electronic social media, which is noteworthy because centralized media is extremely susceptible to federal or state control . The Cold War is accepted to have lasted from 1947 to 1991. Over the course of this period of time, the media evolved its medium of communication
