As WWII ended, the world remained in total disarray. Actual battles on
             land, sea and air transposed into a new type of war and with new players.
             USSR ruler Joseph Stalin depicted the globe as a ball cut in half:
             imperialist and capitalist regimes on one side and the Communist and
             progressive world on the other. Likewise, U.S. President Harry Truman saw
             the political world divided into two wholly opposed systems: On the one
             hand was the free world and on the other, a force that wished to overpower
             At the Yalta Conference, Poland and Yugoslavia gained independence,
             but the USSR received control of Eastern Germany when it promised to help
             fight against the Japanese. However, Stalin did not keep his end of the
             bargain. He disallowed a free vote in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
             Romania and Bulgaria and brought in Communist governments. Also, the war
             against Japan was over before the USSR had the opportunity to show its
             support. The final rift between the two Super Powers came when Great
             Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill envisioned an "Iron Curtin" or
             boundary between the two factions of Europe. The "Cold" War had begun.
             At first, the threat of a nuclear war appeared very real. However,
             the USSR and U.S. began another form of war that included building up arms
             of destruction. Meanwhile, the former began pushing the spread of Communism
             and the latter did all it could to prevent this movement. This worsened
             with the creation of the European North Atlantic Treaty Operation and the
             Communist Warsaw Pact and then the Korean War.
             Nikita Khrushchev assumed USSR power in 1955 and initially
             relationships with the U.S. were better. Then the USSR put up the Berlin
             Wall, and the CIA overthrew the Communist party in Guatemala. An invasion
             of Cuba was being planned under newly elected President John F. Kennedy
             because of the threat of nuclear arms in this nearby Communist c...