To what extent did anti-Communist ideologies influence daily life in the United States during the Cold War? The Cold War lasted from 1945 to 1953. This survey evaluates daily life in the United States during this period. To gauge the impact it had and its significance, the survey evaluates the context of anti-communism, the Red Scare, and everyday American life at home and school. The influences of anti-communist ideologies through various types of propaganda will also be discussed. Bishop Fulton J. Sheen's articles on such events and television documentaries on the perspective of communist ideologies are the primary sources used to evaluate affect. Historical sources dealing with propaganda in the media and school life in the United States will also be used. This investigation will focus on the impacts on daily life in the United States at the national level. Evidence Summary: In the late 1940s and early 1950s, anti-communist ideologies were established to "fight" communism, impacting Americans' values. Governments and security institutions acted out of fear that the United States was in external danger from Soviet communism and was contributing to the process of secularization. Social roles and functions increasingly began to dominate to achieve the proper functioning of American society. Major leaders in American schools, newspapers, and organizations would attempt to steer society in the “right” capitalist direction (Herzog, 136). Through forms of media, such as Bishop J. Sheen's national radio broadcast, popular and influential individuals raised the perception that the Soviets represented the new post-war threat and a degeneration of Western society. Television was beginning to alter… mid-paper… in Cold War America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Print.Herzog, Jonathan P.. The Spiritual-Industrial Complex: America's Religious Battle Against Communism at the Beginning of the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Print. Kaledin, Eugenia. Daily Life in the United States, 1940-1959: Changing Worlds. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000. Print.Steinberg, Peter L.. The Great “Red Menace”: United States Prosecution of American Communists, 1947-1952. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1984. Print.Wang, Jessica. American science in an age of anxious scientists, anti-communism, and the Cold War. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Print.Winsboro, Irvin DS, and Michael Epple. "Religion, Culture, and the Cold War: Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and the American Anti-Communist Crusade of the 1950s." Historical 71.2 (2009): 209-233. Press.