some time. Russia and the United States were allies during World War II, but

soon after they became enemies. After W.W.II, even though the Soviet Union had

a strong military, it was encircled by hostile capitalist governments and felt that if

communism was to remain strong, it needed to form an alliance with other

communist countries. Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the

middle of Berlin, Germany. West Germany was democratic and East Germany

was communist. In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was

created under U.S. leadership to defend the west against the Soviet Union’s

military threat. Seventeen European countries, Canada, and the U.S. signed the

treaty. Therefore, in 1955 Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany,

Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union signed the Alliance Treaty in

Warsaw, Poland, known as the Warsaw Pact. These eight communist countries

agreed to settle all disputes among themselves or others through peaceful means.

They all would come to the aid of the one threatened from an outside attack.

Thus, the US as head of NATO and the Soviet Union as

troops north of the 38th Parallel surrendered to the Soviets , while the Japanese

the two superpowers, The Soviet Union and the United States.

The collapse came after years of attempts by non-Communist governments

1930’s...Nobody had stood up to them. And that is what led to the Second World

who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”(9). Santayana believes

U.S. about the arms race. Gorbachev had a different view about defense than had

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