contain communism, which included the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization in 1954 and the Baghdad Pact in 1955.
             By the early 1950's, two huge blocs emerged. The Western bloc was led by the United States, which included the Philippines, Japan, West Germany, France, Canada, Britain, and several other countries throughout Latin America and Western Europe. The Eastern bloc was led by the Soviet Union, which included Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Albania, and China, who joined after its government was taken over by communism in 1959. The neutral nations were Cambodia, Indonesia, and most of the African states (Kramer, P 762).
             Periods of tension and crisis and periods of reduced tension and limited cooperation caused alternated relations between the Soviet Union and the United States throughout the cold war. The United States and the Soviet Union never indulged against each other militarily, but both were in crises that could have led up to war against each other. Some of these crises included the Soviet bloc
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