Cold War

The Cold War was in a way the most terrifying time in American history. For the first time we had been out smarted by another super power. The Cold War had many different things scare our nation at different times but I will only explain a few of them. The events like: Russia having atomic weapons and the super bomb race, sputnik, which brought on the space race, and finally the red scare all were key points. Although there were more these are some more important ones.
American scientists had already invented the atomic weapon, which was used to bomb Japan. Russian scientists in 1945, three years earlier than expected, had successfully detonated an atomic weapon. Although we did not find out right away when the news hit it was absolute chaos. The fact that we were on bad terms with Russia and now they had weapons of mass destruction scared most everyone.
A few years had passed and now it was just a nuclear arms race to see who could build more weapons and bigger w...