cold war experts

[fire400]

thank tanX only plz
so what do you say how the Cold War affected people's lives at home?

 

[Engraver]

Trying to get someone to do your homework for you?

 

[Epic Fail]

They turned the heater on or sat in front of the fireplace to avoid the cold.

 

[meltdown75]

definitely made people more paranoid, increasingly more eurocentric, lost trust in people from other places and a general disdain for the unknown... created an "us vs. them" mentality that pervades to this day... fostered ignorance and stereotypes regarding communism...
the bright blue skies don't seem as beautiful when in the back of your mind, you think that one day they could be blotted with warheads ensuring the destruction of mankind.
i'm no cold war expert or think tank but ...

 

[Greenman]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
definitely made people more paranoid, increasingly more eurocentric, lost trust in people from other places and a general disdain for the unknown... created an "us vs. them" mentality that pervades to this day... fostered ignorance and stereotypes regarding communism...
the bright blue skies don't seem as beautiful when in the back of your mind, you think that one day they could be blotted with warheads ensuring the destruction of mankind.
i'm no cold war expert or think tank but ...

... you pretty much missed the boat all the way around.

 

[fire400]

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[BigJ]

Who said anything about the Cold War being over? Better dead than red!

 

[JulesMaximus]

Beats me but some of the best music came out of those times. :thumbsup:

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: Greenman

Originally posted by: meltdown75
definitely made people more paranoid, increasingly more eurocentric, lost trust in people from other places and a general disdain for the unknown... created an "us vs. them" mentality that pervades to this day... fostered ignorance and stereotypes regarding communism...
the bright blue skies don't seem as beautiful when in the back of your mind, you think that one day they could be blotted with warheads ensuring the destruction of mankind.
i'm no cold war expert or think tank but ...

... you pretty much missed the boat all the way around.

um, fuck you.

op, just use wikipedia or google.

 

[bonkers325]

cold wars only happen during the winter. in the other seasons you get seasonably warm/balmy and hot wars.

 

[meltdown75]

now i'm crabby.

internet is serious business.

 

[trOver]

wiki wiki wik

 

[nakedfrog]

What part of the Cold War? I expect it was a bit before most of our times (except for old coots like meltdown75). I mean, not the WHOLE thing, but duck-and-cover and backyard bomb shelters and such.

Originally posted by: meltdown75
now i'm crabby.

internet is serious business.

So is YOUR FACE!

 

[meltdown75]

nope. i'm running someone off the road on the way home and it's Greenman's fault.

a fellow TFNNer no less!

a new Cold War has begun.

 

[Vic]

A lot of paranoia. Talk about what would you do in those last 20-30 minutes after the missile launch was announced. A genuine belief among a lot of people that they wouldn't live to die of old age. That kind of thing. I'd recommend watching the 1983 TV movie The Day After.

<- born in '71

 

[fire400]

i'm bleeding over this. but one thing my instructor is asking of students is to "convince" ourselves that we know what the PEOPLE went through during the Cold War -

like McCarthyism, cuban missile crisis, music and its evolution, etc.

a breakdown:

problems,
people,
actions,
results.

just lookin' for personal insight from people to help me pinpoint/realize research studies. drove me insane for quite a while, omg

thx ya'll

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[JeffreyLebowski]

What the cold war ment for me? Lots of surplus commie guns are available for me to buy and shoot at very cheap prices.

 

[308nato]

Going from monthly nuclear attack drills in school (duck and cover) while thinking you could survive a nuclear war with ease, to nuclear attack drills on a SAC base alert pad thinking you could win a nuclear war with some ruffled feathers, to seeing the fall of the USSR and idiotically taking a sigh of relief that all that pent up back of the mind fear could be forgotten and then having the threat return in a much less manageable and random form (terrorist vs MADD) all by the time you are middle aged makes for an interesting life......how the Cold War adjusted everyday life evolved over the time it took place