... 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 t...

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... . As for the use of surrogates a few examples are Korea, Vietnam, Angola, and many more so called wars of liberation, which in reality were communist inspired uprisings. The reunification of Germany in 1990 marked the end of 45 years of political and military confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. This was a political event that was not anticipated by ... a much harder approach to communism. Reagan regarded the Cold War as winnable. During Reagan's first term as president He tried to balance two competing messages. He wanted the US to rearm to counter the Soviet th...

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