It helped countries to be armed well.
The term effects of the Cold War is the Americans and Russians are scared to launch their nuclear missiles at each other.
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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.
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.
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.
Well, yes, we and the USSR were basically the only real country's in the war. However the cold war never really was a literal war. However the Korean War and the Vietnam War were effects of the Cold War, Also the Cuban Missile Crisis was as well.
The main one has been the terror of the cold war and all the side effects from that terror.
Communist containment was the Cold War. The long term effects were MILITARY advancements, to include the computer which you are using now.