Cold War

At the conclusion of the WWII Germany was divided into 4 zones of occupation controlled by Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Berlin, the capital of Germany, was located in the Soviet controlled section of Germany. A lack of agreement and compromise with the Soviet Union concerning the unity of Germany led to the beginning of the Cold War. An American, Financier Bernard Baruch in a congressional debate first used the term …

…and early 1960 relations between the super powers were beginning to improve. (March to Armageddon) The United States, France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union held summit meetings in 1955 and in 1959 Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev visited Camp David in the United States to discuss good will between the two nations. However, later events would lead to an even greater hostility and tensions between the United Sates and the Soviet Union and relations would worsen once again.