The period from 1945 to 1991 is most commonly known as the “Cold War”. This was a time of fear and suspense. The arms race drove both the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) to do drastic things to keep up with each other’s weapons. The cold war negatively affected the U.S.A., the U.S.S.R., and the world by taking money to spend on arms, giving some children ptsd, and by degrading and endangering the lives of many people.
The cold war negatively affected the U.S.A because funds were pulled from necessary programs and put into building nuclear weapons. The U.S. alone spent a total of 5.5 Trillion dollars on arms during the cold war. The United States has only spent more money on national defense and social security. …show more content…
They believed that any day, any time, they could be killed by nuclear weapons. Many children became afraid of the bomb shelters. Being forced into a large, dark, and scary room is not an ideal situation for most children. “one Newton, Mass., kindergarten teacher put her pupils to work adorning the school's bomb shelter with their artwork and turning it into a "reading den" so they wouldn't be afraid to go there if and when the bombs came.”(Greenberg). Children were being bombarded from every angle with the idea that the world could and would come to a terrible horrific …show more content…
The wars in korea and vietnam greatly endangered many lives. Almost 100,000 people lost their lives in these conflicts. The Korean and Vietnam wars fall under a category called “Proxy Wars”. This means that these wars were a way for the United States and the Soviet Union to go to war with each other without really doing so. Because of these wars, many Americans lost their lives. Many innocent Korean and Vietnamese people lost their lives as well. Another way that people’s lives were degraded during the cold war was the Berlin wall.
“On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West.”
The cold war negatively affected the U.S.A because funds were pulled from necessary programs and put into building nuclear weapons. The U.S. alone spent a total of 5.5 Trillion dollars on arms during the cold war. The United States has only spent more money on national defense and social security. …show more content…
They believed that any day, any time, they could be killed by nuclear weapons. Many children became afraid of the bomb shelters. Being forced into a large, dark, and scary room is not an ideal situation for most children. “one Newton, Mass., kindergarten teacher put her pupils to work adorning the school's bomb shelter with their artwork and turning it into a "reading den" so they wouldn't be afraid to go there if and when the bombs came.”(Greenberg). Children were being bombarded from every angle with the idea that the world could and would come to a terrible horrific …show more content…
The wars in korea and vietnam greatly endangered many lives. Almost 100,000 people lost their lives in these conflicts. The Korean and Vietnam wars fall under a category called “Proxy Wars”. This means that these wars were a way for the United States and the Soviet Union to go to war with each other without really doing so. Because of these wars, many Americans lost their lives. Many innocent Korean and Vietnamese people lost their lives as well. Another way that people’s lives were degraded during the cold war was the Berlin wall.
“On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West.”