USA: President Lyndon B. Johnson's speech. President Lyndon B. Johnson tries to please the people of America by saying that he is trying his best help everyone, end the war and return soldiers, but as long as people are challenging America's security and testing them by fighting in battle he will not let the war end.

USA: Vietnam draft. Following the campus teach-ins, the National Teach-in, and the March on Washington, young anti-war activists realized why the Vietnam Conflict was illogical and ineffectual, and began to protest the immorality of being forced to fight in a war they despised. This was also the first draft since World War II, and this incited vast amounts of controversy as well as causing young men to flee to Canada to avoid conscription.

USSR: Khrushchev. Khrushchev tried to expose Stalin for his horrible leadership, and even had his body taken out of the Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square. Khrushchev's secret speech openly denounces Stalin. Although it has been alleged that Khrushchev's principal motivation for giving the speech was to solidify his political leadership position by connecting himself with reform initiatives while damaging his opponents in the Presidium by blaming them in Stalin's misdeeds. Khrushchev tried to make the communist regime much less repressive. Khrushchev also introduced destalinization to the regime.

USSR: The government trying their hardest to make people feel good. The East German government began constructing new towns in the 1950s and 1960s. Eisenhuttenstadt was one such example. This town integrated heavy industrial factories with homes, as well as all of the cultural amenities, schools, hospitals, and shops necessary to create the "ideal" socialist society.

Following the fall of the Iron Curtain, many inhabitants praised the town's sense of community, healthcare, daycare, and law and order.

In terms of quantity, East Germany had an identical number of hospitals and beds as Western capitalist countries.

The quality of healthcare, on the other hand, was not as good. Most new equipment (such as ultrasonography and computerized machines) had to be imported from the West and was prohibitively expensive. Only about a third of the equipment required for cardiac surgery and transplants was available in the 1980s. There was never a complete spectrum of pharmaceuticals and remedies available.

Many doctors and nurses expressed their dissatisfaction with the shortage of supplies, which included gloves, syringes, and even toilet paper.

Some people complained of botched operations and late diagnoses of diseases like cancer because political elites were able to receive better healthcare than 'ordinary' people.

USA: President Nixon's speech. President Nixon says what the president before him spoke upon. Nixon believed that if they were to withdraw from the war, it would promote recklessness in countries of great power who had not yet forgotten their world conquest efforts. He also had said that it would have been a catastrophic failure to withdraw, a nation that can not continue to be great if it betrays its allies and friends.

By 1950, US foreign policymakers were convinced that the fall of Indochina to communism would quickly lead to the collapse of other Southeast Asian countries. The notion was included in a 1952 study on Indochina by the National Security Council, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower articulated it as the "falling domino" principle in April 1954 during the climactic fight between Viet Minh and French forces at Dien Bien Phu.

USSR: Propaganda by humor. During the 1950's, the GDR had a weekly humor magazine. It was riddled with many humorous illustrations, but some of them proposed something close to propaganda. For example, there is an image titled "American Propaganda". On the image, signs read "Chew gum and keep healthy," "Milk and honey flow here," and "Self-service" cover an American tank, which is purportedly the truth of American intentions. Coca-Cola and corned beef tins are present. Flowers have been strategically planted to hide the tanks' weapons. "Closed to East-West commerce," the sign reads. The idea is that the US hides its aggressive ambitions under consumer-oriented advertising.

USSR: State controlled television. In East Germany, the purpose of television transmission was to advance the socialist cause. As the chairman of the State Radio Committee put it in 1960: “By means of ideological and educational broadcasts from the main centres of the republic, radio and television aid the building-up and victory of socialism” (quoted in Paulu 1974: 229). This points to a heavily instrumented television system that prioritized agitation over all else. East German television, on the other hand, was tasked with informing, educating, and entertaining viewers, which it did to different degrees of success.