The end of the Second World War was not only the end of a long and hard battle, but also the beginning of a hypersensitive and dynamic stage who moved culture at all levels. . The post-war phase, as it is now called, has shaped the world we live in; the era itself was created both by the war that waged it and by the dominant forces that surrounded it. As the energy of the essentially different ideas of socialism and equality collapsed with the advances in science regarding the nuclear bomb instinct, a dangerous situation resulted that produced an atmosphere of fear throughout the world and especially within American walls. The Cold War was fought one by one between the United States and the Soviets, it was instantly playing out in the ordinary lives of the masses within their borders. The terror, however, is not a direct consequence of the end of the war. The United States experienced a prolonged period of economic growth during the war and grew the war within the American economy with great power for over ten years. Living in America was perhaps better than ever in recent years. The middle class has grown, we have seen unemployment rates reach their lowest levels in history, and the “American Dream” has become a reality for many families. Positive economic conditions, the United States had become the most dominant country in the world; more essentially, America was the first and only country to develop the atomic bomb. It was at this same time that the political forces of communism and democracy came crashing down. The United States was obviously on one side of this issue, while the directly announced Soviet Union and Soviet bloc were on the other side. The loss of the Germans, although a success for both sides, had left ...... middle of paper ...... a moment steeped in American culture. The relationship between the danger of socialism and the danger of nuclear war. Without the bomb, communism posed no material danger to America; this is underlined by the fact that the true height of the Cold War in the 1950s only occurred after the Soviet Union had developed the H-bomb and built a stockpile of nuclear weapons. Yet without the deep divide that separated the "socialists" of the East from the "investors" of the West, the bomb itself would not have posed the same threat, and therefore would not have caused the same level of violence. panic. The Cold War years and, therefore, environment of terror symbolized the mixing of contradictory social beliefs with weapons so powerful that their use amounted to self-destruction; historically, it was the greatest strategy game ever played.