To what extent did anti-communist ideologies affect daily life in the United States during the Cold War? The Cold War lasted from 1945 to 1953. This survey assesses daily life in the United States during this period. To assess the impact and significance of this phenomenon, the investigation examines the context of anticommunism, 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. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen's articles on such events and television documentaries on the perspective of communist ideologies are the primary sources used to assess the effects. In addition, historical sources dealing with media propaganda and school life in the United States will also be used. This investigation will focus on daily life in the United States that has been affected nationally. Summary of Evidence: In the late 1940s and early 1950s, anti-communist ideologies were established to "fight" the communism, thus influencing the values ​​of Americans. Governments and security institutions acted on fears that the United States was externally threatened by Soviet communism and contributed to the process of secularization. Increasingly, societal roles and functions began to dominate in order to achieve the smooth functioning of American society. Top leaders of American schools, newspapers, and organizations would attempt to lead society in the “right” capitalist direction (Herzog, 136). Through various media outlets, such as Bishop J. Sheen's national radio broadcast, popular and influential individuals created the impression that the Soviets represented the new postwar threat and a degeneration of Western society. Television was beginning to change the medium of 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 in the Early Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Print. Kaledin, Eugenia. Daily life in the United States, 1940-1959: worlds in motion. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. Print. Steinberg, Peter L.. The Great “Red Menace”: US Prosecutions of American Communists, 1947-1952. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984. Print. Wang, Jessica. American Science in an Age of Scientific Anxiety, Anticommunism, 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.” Historian 71.2 (2009): 209-233. Print.