Cultural Conflicts: The Cold War Or The Atomic Age

Words: 205
Pages: 1

The Cold War – also known as the Atomic Age – begins with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. From 1945 to 1991, there was “conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union for global supremacy” and “on-going political conflict, occasional military conflicts, and mutually assured destruction” (Bufalino 4/26/18). In the 1950s, cultural conflicts started to arise. There was a “Baby Boom,” a period of McCarthyism, and a sudden glorification of domesticity. The rise of a new family structure and dynamic yet maintaining conventional family roles and qualities simultaneously resulted from Cold War tensions. The term nuclear family, characterized as parents and their children, expected a double meaning in the context of threat