It held back useful development and put fortunes into the hands of the weapons industry. The fear generated by the cold war myth has kept the worlds arms industly afloat for the last 60 years . it is now being taken over by the War on terror myth.
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The main one has been the terror of the cold war and all the side effects from that terror.
The construction of the Berlin Wall.
1. Cold War 1945-1990 2. Gulf of Tonkin 1964 (part of the cold war) 3. 21st century, Afghanistan (2001 to present); Global War on Terrorism. A totally new world/totally new subject.
It was involve by contributing to the cold war
The term effects of the Cold War is the Americans and Russians are scared to launch their nuclear missiles at each other.
ww2 .
it has nothing impact...
Military spending was drastically cut as a side effect of the cold War. World affairs are still influenced today from the Cold War.
{| |- | The Cold War was at the end of the 20th Century. It began shortly after the end of World War 2 and lasted until the early 1990's. During that time the threat of nuclear war was fairly high. |}
It helped countries to be armed well.
it has nothing impact...
the long TERM effect was the CoLd WaR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
More money spent on National Defense.
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.
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Vietnam gave the "cold war" leaders the opportunity to perfect their "cold war" weapons...by actually using them in combat; e.g. the B52 & the MiG21 for example. SAMs and their accompanying radars as another example.