Imagine having a war where neither side fought the other because the consequences would be too horrifying, but instead fight for their beliefs! That is exactly what the Cold War was, which is a term that is best used to describe the relationship between America and the Soviet Union in 1945 to 1989. Why were these two mighty nations so distrustful of each other? It first started when one of America's leading generals, Patton, said that he wanted the Allied army to unite with what was left of the Wehrmacht in 1945 and fight the oncoming Soviet Red Army. Churchill was furious that the supreme heat of the Allied command had agreed that the Red Army should be allowed to get to Berlin first. Extreme distrust raged throughout the Allies. Some other differences that could have lead to the distrust is that America has free elections when the Soviet Union has no elections, America is democratic and the Soviet Union is an autocratic/dictatorship, and America believes in personal freedom while the Soviet Union wants society to be controlled by the NKVD (a.k.a. secret police.) Another important difference America and the Soviet Union had was America believes in "Survival of the Fittest" and the Soviet Union wants everyone to help everyone. The Cold War was to command universal affairs for decades and many major crises occurred- the Warsaw Pact and NATO, the Iron Curtain, the Berlin Wall, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
             Caused by diverse international factors, the nations of NATO and the nations of the Warsaw pact caused a potentially disastrous struggle for world authority. These two factors caused what George Bush said, "the Cold War began with the division of Europe.". Becoming the western bloc countries, NATO (or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was a military alliance that received threat of the USSR and communism. On April 4, 1949, the original countries (Belgium, Can...