How Did The Cold War Affect Us Today

The Cold War, one of the most scariest times in America’s, or even the world’s history. The threat of nuclear war was real, very real. At any moment America or the U.S.S.R. could destroy the entire world with their assault of nuclear weapons, just at a call and a click of a button. This is one of many important times in history, and still affects us today. Not only did the North Atlantic Treaty Operation come from the tensions, but the bay of pigs, the cuban missile crisis, the berlin wall (the construction and demolition) all were the outcome from these tensions in which still affect us today.
Lets talk about the most crucial times during the cold war, the cuban missile crisis, and how it is still affecting us today. The cuban missile crisis was the time when Russia and the US were at the highest chance to destroy each other, and possibly the world. Khrushchev Placed medium ranged nuclear warheads in Cuba, which were pointed directly at the US and could reach
anywhere in the US. President Kennedy gave one of the scariest speeches any US leader had to give, to inform the general population of the crisis going on in Cuba. The US had two ways to deal with this problem, either to invade Cuba and seize the missiles for themselves, which would result in war with the Russians, or to quarantine cuba from incoming Russians ships to stop the supplies from coming into Cuba. Luckily, the US decided to just quarantine Cuba from Russian ships by having an arsenal of navy ships surround Cuba.
Khrushchev warned Kennedy that he was going to start the nuclear war, but Kennedy stated that the US was going to invade Cuba if they didn’t take out the missiles, in the end Kennedy and Khrushchev came to an agreement that the US wouldn’t invade and the missiles would be taken out, this whole ordeal still affects us today.
Cuba is still a communist country to this day, but with recant talks with Cuba’s government, we have learn to deal with one another. When cuba became a communist country, there were refugees that came to america by boat, and to this day they still come to become a free man or woman, they still have to take the US citizen test to become one though. Our governments still haven’t gotten along since this moment in history, we still have regulations on what people can go over to Cuba. We used to not allow US citizens over to Cuba at all! Now people go in tour groups to promote people to people action with cuban citizens, and cannot go just on vacation and take a boat or fly over at
all.
Some people may ask, “why is history so important?” This shows how history is important because it still affects us today with the regulations on cuba travel, how The United States and Russia almost destroyed each other, how we can get past differences from the past and think about the future, and how one small brink in time can change our views forever.