An Age of FearTruman had just demonstrated the raw power of the nuclear bomb to end World War II in 1945. The cost of the war had immediately changed; the world had seen that entire cities could be wiped out in seconds. It would send a paralyzing shock across the world. After World War II, the world was divided between two economic idealities, communism and capitalism. This would drag America and the Soviet Union into the Cold War. The Cold War was an exceptionally distinct war that manifested a fear in Americans that was beautifully captured in literature and films made by people who lived through the Cold War. Many Americans were extremely happy that their country emerged victorious from the horrific World War. . They were ready to return to the peace they had once known. By this time, books like Stuart Little and Goodnight Moon had become exceptionally popular with American audiences. These novels were very child-oriented and conservative, just like society at the time. There was not the slightest trace of war in the pages of these books. These books captured the mindset of a typical American, wanting to move past the war and clear his mind of the atrocities his country had just witnessed. Even if the time they were trying to return to wasn't the same time they were in right before the war. Before the war, women gained many rights and freedoms that they did not have before, but America was returning to more traditional times. This meant that women's rights would be called into question. America had begun to comply. The American middle class has undergone a transformation and has conformed to the guidelines set by films like It's A Wonderful Life. This film had the image of a... middle of paper ... literature related to the Cold War. The Cold War was a war unlike any war anyone had ever experienced. Cold War literature was unlike any literature anyone had ever experienced before. The Cold War brought many heterogeneous ideas that no author before had had because those ideas were not possible before. This fear was unlike any other, but the authors of this period were able to capture it perfectly in the pages of their books. The pages of these books are a time machine. When learning history people are not very excited because they know the outcome but the Cold War is a completely different time because before everyone knew a victory or defeat was won , you would still live, perhaps not in the same way as before, but alive nonetheless, but if even one warhead were to be launched, the enemy would launch all of its own, ending both countries and probably to Earth..