What were the effects of the Cold War?

the consequences of the Soviet Union's victory over the Nazis were rejected, and a global containment of communism was elevated into a doctrine by President Truman. In Russia, military spending was cut dramatically and quickly

Politcally: opposition between liberal democracy and dictatorship of working class people; especially those in the Soviet Union)

Economially: it created an oppostion between socialism and capitalism; military-industrial complexs grew in power by the U. S. and they dominated political decisions over public insterest.

Socially: the countries were divided through their support with the U. S. or the Soviet Union (USSR). Those who opposed (in USSR) were either imprisioned or sent to mental hospitals. In the U. S., no one supported the USSR; while other countries had some communist tie after WW2.

Geopolically: other countries had to align with either the U. S or USSR; some remained Neutral. The world was polarized (East/West in Germany), indirect conflicts in the Korean War (1950-53), Vienam War (1964-74), and Soviet-Afghan War (1979-89).

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, it ended the Soviet Union as being one of the superpowers and the rise of democratic goverments were forming in East Germany, Poland, Hungry, and Czechoslovakia; eventually in the Soviet Union (now called Russia) finally became a democracy in the late 1991 (forming 15 new independent nations)