Cold War Wars
The Cold War was the conflict between the two superpowers of the world, the democratic United States of America and the communist Soviet Union. For over fifty years the two superpowers fought each other for power and control of the world. The Cold War started after the end of the Second World War in 1945 when both superpowers were no longer looking at Nazi Germany, but instead at each other and the rest of the world. It rose due to antagonist values with the United States, demonstrating democracy and capitalism, and the Soviet Union, signifying communism and totalitarianism. Being the two principal world powers after WWII, controversy with the Americans and Soviets became a worldwide conflict. However, the Cold War ended up affecting practically every country in the world someway.
Some countries were affected by having wars erupt within them. Some examples were Vietnam, Korea, and Afghanistan. In each of these wars, many amounts of communists fought non-communists. In each case, both sides had help from other countries that were on their side. Either way, the countries were both badly impacted by the fighting. In other countries, the impacts were more positive. The US & the USSR would compete with one another to help countries that were not firmly aligned in one camp or the other.
They would often give economic aid to countries to help persuade those countries to take their side. What this meant is that some countries benefited from the cold war in economic terms. What we can say is that in the end, all the countries were affected by the cold war. The reason of that was because the cold war shaped the international order. All countries had to worry about what would happen if nuclear war broke out between the two main powers, the US & USSR. By contrast, most countries also benefited to some degree from the relative peace that involved the cold