Mutual distrust, suspicion, and misunderstandings can characterize the Cold War by two sides and their allies. The Cold War shortly followed the conference held between the leaders of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, which took place at the Black Sea resort of Yalta between th...

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On 26 September 1939, twenty five days after the Germans invaded the Polish border, a Romanian plane hijacked by Polish forces landed near Warsaw carrying  an emissary of the Polish commander-in-chief. ...

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The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance of the Eastern European Soviet Block countries intended to organize against the perceived threat from the NATO alliance. The Eastern Block members were: Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, the former USSR and the former Czechoslovakia. All the Co...

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