The world has seen major shifts in cultural views and behaviors. These major transformations in thinking are called paradigm shifts. Paradigm shifts have happened throughout all of history and the 20th century is no different. The 20th century was a time that saw numerous wars, the world began to explore space, and there were major developments in nuclear power, technology, communication and medicine and health. The culture that began in 1901 was almost unrecognizable to the one that stood in 1999. One massive paradigm shift came from space exploration. The Cold War began and Russia began to launch space missions. America shifted from a place of comfort and became overrun with fear that communism would overtake them. The western world stood