The United States and The Soviets: The Cold War

Towards end of the Second World War II was not just the end of long hard fought battle, but also the start of an oversensitive and vibrant stage that moved culture on all levels. The post war phase, as it became known, formed the world we live in; the era was created itself both by the war that had lead it, and dominant forces that encased it. As the energy of primarily different ideas Socialism and Equality collapsed with improvements in science as for instinct nuclear bomb, a hazardous situation resulted that produced an atmosphere of fear throughout the world and particularly, inside American walls.

The Cold War played out one by one between the United States and the Soviets, it was instantaneously playing out in the ordinary lives of the masses within their borders. Terror, however, was not a result that followed directly after the end of the War. The United States had owned a prolonged period of economic growth during the war, and developing the war within the United States economy sustained with great power for more than ten years. Living in America was perhaps better than it has ever been in recent years. The middle class had increased, we saw unemployment rates at its lowest points in history, and the “American Dream” was becoming a reality for many families. Positive economic conditions, U.S. had become the most dominant country in the world; more essentially, America was the first and only country to develop the atom bomb.

This same era that the political forces of Communism and Democracy crashed head on. The United States was obviously on one side of this issue, with the Soviet Union and the Soviet Bloc announced directly on the other side. The loss of the Germans, although a success for both parties, had left ...

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... moment infused American culture.

The relationship between the danger of Socialism and the endangerment of nuclear war. Without the bomb, Communism did not present a material hazard to America; this is emphasized by the conditions that the true height of the Cold War in 1950’s did not occur until after the Soviet Union had developed the H- Bomb and built a supply of nuclear weapons. Yet, if it weren’t for the deep rift that disconnected the “Socialists” of the East from the “Investors” of the West, the bomb itself would not have presented the same threat, and therefore would not have provoked the same level of panic. The Cold War years and as a result, the environment of terror symbolized the mixing of conflicting social beliefs with weapons so mighty that using them was similar to self-destruction; historically, it was the greatest game of Strategy ever played.