![]() When you reach this part of the Cold War, focus tends to swap from the individual leaders to the events themselves. While these alliances were not specifically in conflict with one another, it was clear that a spat between any two members of opposing alliances could easily escalate into a much larger conflict. USSR, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, East Germany (GDR), AlbaniaĬlearly, by 1949 a large proportion of the world had been divided along ideological lines – with one side aligned with the USA and the other with the Soviet Union. USA, UK, Canada, West Germany, Portugal, France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg This group, along with Comecon, would become even more important in keeping the Soviet bloc together after 1956 when Cominform disbanded To resist an attack on the Soviet bloc by the USA or its NATO allies. To resist an attack by the USSR on the USA or its Allies in Western Europe, based on the principle of collective security and that an armed attack on one of its members was an attack on them all NATO and the Warsaw PactĪfter the crisis of the Berlin Blockade in 1948-49, Europe became divided into two opposing armed camps: the US-backed NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) countries on one side, and the Warsaw Pact countries of Eastern Europe and the USSR on the other. It moved beyond the borders of Europe into Asia and even into space! At the same time, the USA and USSR greatly increased their caches of nuclear weapons. ![]() ![]() After 1948 the Cold War entered a new phase. ![]()
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