The political and economic life during the United States Cold War years was changed through enemy engagements in multiple arenas. The two opposing countries are both eager to defeat the other, so both countries decided to leave the outcomes of the Cold War to different forms of engagement at different arenas. This changed the political policy of the administrations of both countries. Neither the US President nor the Soviet Premier at the time was able to discount the raring of people to actually go and engage with the enemy. Although it was only a Cold War, both nations still had economic changes as they tried to keep up with each other’s expenditures and military spending.