Although the Cold War had many negative influences on global society, it also helped to create a stable political world, as evidenced by the fact that during the Cold War era, civil wars, nationalistic uprisings, and ethnic cleansings were almost non-existent. As well, the world economic situation was subsequently greatly improved by the military build-up caused by the Cold War. The implementation of the American "Marshall Plan" and the Communist "Molotov Plan", the nuclear arms …showed first 75 words of 1408 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1408 total…Cold War were negative in nature, as a whole the Cold War helped rather than hindered countries on both sides of the conflict. BIBLIOGRAPHY Campbell, Christy Disarmament. London: MacDonald & Co. Ltd, 1986. Cheney, Glenn Alan Nuclear Proliferation. New York: Franklin Watts Publishing, 1999. Roussopoulos, Dimitrios I. The Coming of World War Three. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1986. Zelinski, Victor; Draper, Graham; Quinlan, Don; McFadden, Fred Twentieth Century Viewpoints: An Interpretive History. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 1996.