Following theCold War,Russiacut military spending dramatically, but the adjustment was wrenching, as the military-industrial sector had previously employed one of every five Soviet adults[1]and its dismantling left hundreds of millions throughout the former Soviet Union unemployed.After Russia embarked on capitalist economic reforms in the 1990s, it suffereda financial crisisand a recession more severe than the United States andGermanyhad experienced during theGreat Depression.Russian living standards have worsened overall in the post–Cold War years, although the economy has resumed growth since 1999.
The legacy of the Cold War continues to influence world affairs.[After thedissolution of the Soviet Union, the post–Cold War world is widely considered asunipolar, with the United States the sole remaining superpower.The Cold War defined the political role of the United States in the post–World WarII world: by 1989 the United States held military alliances with 50countries, and had 1.5million troops posted abroad in 117countries.The Cold War also institutionalized a global commitment to huge, permanent peacetimemilitary-industrial complexesand large-scalemilitary funding of science.
Military expenditures by the US during the Cold War years were estimated to have been $8trillion, while nearly 100,000Americans lost their lives in theKorean WarandVietnam War.Although the loss of life among Soviet soldiers is difficult to estimate, as a share of their gross national product the financial cost for the Soviet Union was far higher than that of the United States.
In addition to the loss of life by uniformed soldiers, millions died in the superpowers'proxy warsaround the globe, most notably inSoutheast Asia.Most of the proxy wars and subsidies for local conflicts ended along with the Cold War; the incidence of interstate wars, ethnic wars, revolutionary wars, as well as refugee and displaced persons crises has declined sharply in the post–Cold War years.
The legacy of Cold War conflict, however, is not always easily erased, as many of the economic and social tensions that were exploited to fuel Cold War competition in parts of the Third World remain acute.The breakdown of state control in a number of areas formerly ruled by Communist governments has produced new civil and ethnic conflicts, particularly in the formerYugoslavia.In Eastern Europe, the end of the Cold War has ushered in an era of economic growth and a large increase in the number ofliberal democracies, while in other parts of the world, such asAfghanistan, independence was accompanied bystate failure.
The Cold War started b/c Stalin and Truman didn't get along. they fought like little kids and had to settle it with more power. they thought bombs and distruction would be the solution to these disputes!
also during the cold war, government reduced our nuclear missiles because we were scared of Russia attacking us.
Some consequences of the Cold War were environmental damages, social tensions, and economical tensions... These are only a few... -Payton:)
Building weapons (keeping up with the Jones's).
Korea remains a divided nation with a communist North and a free South.
Military threats were drastically reduced because of the end of the Gulf War in the early 1990s. This left the United States, at that time, in no direct conflicts.
Communist containment was the Cold War. The long term effects were MILITARY advancements, to include the computer which you are using now.
The Cold War lasted a lot longer than one year. It started in the late 1940s and went on until Communism collapsed in Russia etc in the early 1990s. The war in 1953 was the Korean War.
polands are not in the cold war
Yes there is pen-is but not Denis. So the answer is okay.
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.
It helped countries to be armed well.
it has nothing impact...
the long TERM effect was the CoLd WaR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Cold War lasted from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s. See the site below for more information.
More money spent on National Defense.
Military threats were drastically reduced in the early 1990s because of the end of the 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.
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.