In this book you'll learn how in the critical twenty years after world war ii the united states changed from being a continental democratic republic to a global imperial superpower. Since then nothing has ever been the same again. In this book you will discover this secret history of the united states that formed the basis of the world we live in today. In the early 1960s, east germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the berlin wall, an eleven-foot-high barrier that consisted of seventy-nine miles of fencing, 300 watchtowers, 250 guard dog runs, twenty bunkers, and was operated around the clock by guards who shot to kill. Inside you will read about... What was the cold war? The origins of the cold war World war ii and the beginning of the cold war The cold war in the 1950s The cold war in the 1960s The cold war in the 1970s The cold war was international affairs for the second half of the 20th century. Nuclear weapons testing, civil wars in all corners of the globe and the race for economic dominance were all key spheres of the cold war, although they were just a few elements of an intriguing global puzzle. More so than the great battles between carthage and rome in ancient times or the napoleonic wars, the cold war defined our world. But, there was one key difference between the cold war and earlier major wars.