For the average US Citizen, and possibly any other human being living in a society that had knowledge of Atomic Bombs (Nuclear Missiles); daily life consisted of..."Gee, is that a mushroom cloud over there? Darn, someone pushed the button...S--- , it started." We lived under the cloud of Nuclear War. Life was routine, and one day it might happen...until then life went on.
During and after the cold war, the world's nations decided that it would be smart to have nuclear weapons and also that it was good to be technologically advanced. The world pretty much had a race to see who had the best technology and who had the best weapons. It changed the world because now nations are trying to get other nations not to use them, and also because nations are always thinking if something happens there can be a nuclear war. Also, because we are technologically advanced, we are able to get so far. We have ipods where before we would need records,tapes, cds. And also the most recent thing I can remember the ipad. it's things that made a difference and let us be as technologically advanced as we are.
The inventions that the Cold War produced would change the world forever; the most important of these innovations were the microwave, integrated circuits, communications and spy satellites, ICBM (Inter Continental Ballistic Missile), internet, smoke detector, supercomputer, and GPS. Not to mention the advances in how our government now deals with foreign affairs, like the use of more high tech servalance through satalites to ensure proper diagnostics on international threats. After the cold war it is safe to say America has taken on a new international role as a world peace keeper, or world police sort of, although are actions are only executed when the benefits out weigh the risks, like in the case of Iraq for forgien oil.
Among other things, there were the children brought up in a state of fear, called the "Duck and Cover Generatiion".Which iis often seen as an abberation in American socitey.
Much of the US was worried about the possibility of a nuclear war. Civil Defense drills were common. Vast quantities of materials and effort were put into weapons development. If these had been focused on other activities, many things in the world might be different. The world was divided into two armed camps, each very suspicious of the other.
Americans began to fear communism and people who were suspected as communists, such as celebrities in the entertainment industry (look up the Hollywood Ten), received criminal punishment.
The Cold War did not impact WW2 at all, because it happened later.
Two separate things. The cold war was a state of mistrust and intense spying between the US and the USSR, and to a lesser extent, China. no it is not, The cold war was between Russia and America, The civil war is Northern America vs Southern America
they all died. :/
America supported NATO
Thanks to the cold war, the US landed a man on the moon in 1969! We had the "Right Stuff!"
The Cold War did not impact WW2 at all, because it happened later.
The aids epidemic had a huge impact on the cold war, the impact was caused by aids
DDT and the Cold War were two different issues.
There's no cold war.
The Cold War had the potential to severely impact the earth through the effects of expolding hundreds of nuclear weapons if it ever became a hot war. But as the Cold War did not result in a nuclear confrontation, it had esseentially no impact on the earth.
Part of the cold war; should America have participated in the cold war?
America feared the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The Cold War lasted for over 40 years from 1946 to 1991.
it has nothing impact...
they wanted everything
The only one I know is that they both fought America, well America was in the cold war and America fought Iraq.
Stalin urged the North Koreans to invade South Korea. Result: The Korean War (1950-1953). Stalin died in 1953.
Two separate things. The cold war was a state of mistrust and intense spying between the US and the USSR, and to a lesser extent, China. no it is not, The cold war was between Russia and America, The civil war is Northern America vs Southern America