How were American politics and culture shaped by the Cold War? be sure to use subversion
hydrogen bomb
domino theory
containment
McCarthyism
in your answer

The Cold War had a profound influence on politics and culture across the United States. Developments like the Soviet Union’s launching and successful orbit of “Sputnik,” the evolution of American involvement in Vietnam and the consequent emergence of a counterculture were all seminal developments during the Cold War era.

While the Soviet Union had been allied with the United States and Great Britain in the struggle to defeat Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, and while American media dutifully advanced the notion of Russia as a noble ally, the two-sides to what became known as the Cold War viewed each other with distrust and, at times, outright hostility. The end of World War II, despite (or, possibly, because of) the agreements the Allies had negotiated regarding the structure of the post-war continent, led to the division of Europe into two hostile camps that defined the Cold War for the next 40 years.

Explanation:

the american rail road was the most influential and useful transportation system developed in the 1800's with steam locomotives and in the very late 1800's and early 1900's diesel electric locomotives being used to transport goods and people around the newly expanded united states!