The era that takes place in the book called the Countdown, by Deborah Wiles kind of reminds me of the era of the Bush Administration because in both of those eras the people of the United States were afraid of being attacked by their foes. I think there is one difference because in one of those eras we were afraid of only small groups of people who were crazy and back then we were afraid of a big country that had tons of nukes. Another way those eras are similar is because both of those sparked racism against people whose origins are from the countries that our nation were afraid of. An example is 911 caused discrimination against Muslims because the stereotype is that all terrorists are Muslim, so they would get bullied at school or searched extra hard at airport. Another example is the stereotype was that in the 1950's all people who are Soviet Union in origin or were communists were considered spies for the U.S.S.R.
The eras of the 1950's and 2000's are similar is because the people of those eras were afraid that they would be attacked by certain people. Also they are similar because both those eras sparked racial discrimination against people from the Soviet Union and Muslims because people were afraid that these people would attack the U.S. Another reason why they were similar because they were several issues resulting after those eras such as the mosque near World Trade Center and after the Soviet Union break up when the U.S offered Aid money to Russia. Both of those issues caused problems to the U.S because people thought they shouldn't build a mosque near the 911 site because the terrorists who attacked the Two Twin Towers were Muslim and they thought doing that would cause disrespect to the innocent people who died in 911, as for the other issue it caused problems here because some people thought that the break up of the Soviet Union was just an act and that when they got all the help they would be the Soviet Union again and be even more powerful because they had U.S and allied aid. Also both of those eras were over worried about the U.S.S.R and terrorists attacking us because I think they thought that U.S was so powerful that they never thought they would be attacked so the thought of getting attacked seemed more scary then other countries.
The eras of the 1950's and 2000's are different because one era of those people were afraid of terrorists doing the unbelievable again like another suicide attack on a famous building structure and another era was afraid that they would be nuked by the Soviets. They are also different because the Cold War era lasted from 1950's- 1991 and the terrorism era lasted from 2001-to the present. Another reason why they are different is because the people of the Cold War era were more afraid of their foe then the Terrorism era. This is true because in the book on page 25 it shows that when the practice drill for a Soviet attack turned on the kids would have to duck and cover under a desk and stay in the school. Another reason that this is true because America had a war against Vietnam, Korea, and a little fight with Cuba all so they could prevent the spread of communism.
From this book I learned that 2 different eras that were pretty far apart can be so similar. I learned this because I learned from this book and With Their Eyes by Annie Thomas should that in time of fear people discriminate and hate on people because they blamed the problem on them. I also learned how different 40-50 years can affect how a population thinks and how it still stays and reacts the same. This makes me wonder what would be the reaction of the U.S this time if something like that happened again.
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