Have you ever driven on a highway before? If so you have president Eisenhower to thank. The Interstate Highway was built so you can drive longer distances faster, however M.A.D. indirectly caused the Interstate Highway.

M.A.D. “Mutually Assured Destruction” was the idea where you could defeat your opponents and vice versa. During the cold war, this was happening between the United States and the Soviet Union. Eisenhower was worried that we would be bombed by the Soviet Union. We built it for faster evacuation if we were ever bombed (“Name of Website”).

The United States wouldn’t be where it is today without the interstate highway system. In a way, the cold war was a good thing because it made America what it is today.