Answer: The “space race” and the first man on the moon.
Step-by-step explanation:
The one thing that always amazed me about the Cold War is how it became a great push on the development of space technology. Today it´s very clear that without the competition established between the United States and the Soviet Union during the years of the Cold War, humanity wouldn´t have developed the space travel technology that led to the first landed human on the moon as early as 1969.
The irony of such violent competition based on profound political confrontation having such a positive outcome is always the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about the Cold War.