On the home front, in small and large Texas towns alike, many feared nuclear annihilation and grappled with the need to build a bomb shelter in the back yard during the Arms Race. Like the rest of the nation, Texans worried about family members serving overseas during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and Operation Desert Storm.
Over the course of nearly five decades, Texas and Texans responded to their nation’s call to duty on both the military and home front, and served admirably.Īlthough the Cold War officially ended almost 25 years ago, to many, the real sense of fear and anxiety that Texans (their parents and grandparents) felt is hard to comprehend or relate to.
The United States and the Soviet Union were actively engaged in an escalating and intense political, military, and economic confrontation between 19. As a result, an unofficial but nonetheless all-too-real ‘state of war’ developed between the two emerging superpowers. Competing views of post-war Europe and other regions around the world quickly set the former allies down a decades-long period of mutual distrust. When World War II ended in September 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union-former allies in the defeat of Nazi Germany had already begun to see fractures in their once-mutual support of one another.
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