{"id":1901,"date":"2016-09-15T10:23:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T14:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/?page_id=96"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:40:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:40:59","slug":"cold-war-new-york","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/cold-war-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold War New York"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Courtesy from Neptuul from Wikimedia Commons: In order to improve defenses, the UN Headquarters was established in 1952<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Cold War, a forty-five-year global and political crisis, has not only affected many countries and governments, but it impacted New York as well. This international tension led New York to organize their own civil defenses, especially fallout shelters, to protect themselves from nuclear attacks. Located near a beach in Queens, Fort Tilden was a military base that defended New York citizens from global air raids and served as an artillery for soldiers to store their weapons. After the end of the Second World War, the United Nations was constructed, replacing the League of Nations, and was completed in 1952 to improve their civil defenses. Even though the Cold War was a broad hostility throughout all nations, this geopolitical war still motivated New Yorkers to construct shelters and eventually establish the United Nations headquarters, in order to protect their city and state from further antagonism.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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