Fallout Shelters

In August, 1945 the United stated of America dropped two nuclear bomb on the japanese towns of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing over 300,000 thousand people. These two bombs, were the first nuclear bombs ever to be used on a country. The first step towards what is called the cold war. This was consisted of no fighting but a constant dispute between The United States and The Soviet Union. It was capitalism vs communism; two world powers. Both the Soviets and the US were in 45 year an arms race to see who could make the biggest and most powerful bombs. The fear of a nuclear war caused America to think of ways to protect themselves causing the creation of fallout shelter. These fallout shelters of the cold war created a change in american culture and society.

The fallout shelter was a physical thing

Like a cold war’s fallout shelters, Japanese internment camps were both a symbol of fear. They both created fear in American society. In the cold war people were scared of nuclear war and communism. During the 1940s americans were afraid of the Japanese Shinto and a general fear toward anyone of Japanese origins. Both events also caused a shift in american culture. Propaganda poster appeared everywhere showing hate towards japanese. Like propaganda on posters, shows, movies, and even book would discriminate against communists. Much like the scary, crude posters of communists killing americans, Japanese were depicted skinny eyes and a round fat face. They were shown in movies as villains. As well as the fear and shifts in american culture, japanese internment camps and american fallout shelters both created fear towards other countries. Americans were generally just afraid of the countriest of the soviet union and Japan. In World War Two Americans were afraid of Japan’s army with their kamikaze planes, comparable to how Americans were afraid of the Soviets