The Cold War The Cold War was in not really a war. There was no major fighting, but rather a conflict between the East and the West. After the Second World War, the world was divided between the Communists and the non-Communists, the East and the West. The East consisted of the Soviet Union, its smaller countries. The West consisted of the United States and its Western European Allies. Although no full-scale war broke out, …showed first 75 words of 971 total…

…showed last 75 words of 971 total…first atomic bomb, the United States finally had a reason to be scared. As a reaction to this, and the growing Soviet military threat, NATO was formed. This was a good treaty, because it meant that the United States was not alone in trying to prevent a nuclear war. The actions taken by the Soviet Union and more particularly Stalin, directly resulted in the outbreak of the Cold War. The Cold War Ben Young June 11, 2001