The Cold War

In 1946 after World War II Europe was filled with a war of political ideals between democratic countries in the West and the Communist countries in the East. Even though the Soviet Union was allies with Great Britain and the United States during the war, the Soviets had felt as if they had done most of the fighting during the war. As distrust grew between the two sides, the Soviet Union began to create communist government in all of it's countries in eastern Europe and even dividing Germany into two sides. Soon the whole eastern side was separated from the West knowing as what we call, "The Iron Curtain." Since Germany was split up right down the middle, Stalin(Soviet Leader) wanted to cut of the transport from East Berlin to the West in order to gain control of all of Berlin. He thought that since one side needed the other to survive, he could cut one side off to gain control. However, this idea did not work for West Berlin had goods flown in which proved to put Stalin's plan to shame.

In 1949, the Western European countries created what is known as the N.A.T.O. which was a treaty that if the Soviets attacked any of the Countries on the treaty, than the other countries would help to go against the Soviets.