Cold War and Its Legacy. Term Paper

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The legacy of the Cold War, as this writer shows, is ever changing, and as tensions in the Middle East continue to grow, there is still much to be written in history books about the Cold War and its effect on the U.S. And the world (White 315-317). Another writer puts it even more bluntly, stating, "The Cold War was an internecine conflict between two offspring of Western civilization; the terror war is a fight between barbarism and civilization itself" (Nichols 232). Thus, America has not left conflict behind, instead, conflict continues, even if it is not with the same combatants.

In conclusion, the Cold War left behind a legacy of mistrust between the Soviet Union and the United States.
It also helped create the space race, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the war in Afghanistan, and a wall of communism across Europe. All that is gone now, and supposedly Russia and the United States are allies again, but with the continuing unrest in Russia under Boris Putin's regime, things are not stable in Russia, and one must wonder what will happen to Russian/U.S. relations in the future. In fact, many analysts predict more cold wars in the future, and these wars will certainly affect more than just the United States and Russia, they will affect the entire planet (Nichols 233-235)......

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