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NATO was instated
The united states, canada, and ten other countries formed a new military alliance Called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The members of this pledged to help one another if they were ever attacked. -
The warsaw pact is made
In 1955 the Soviet Union responded by forming its own military alliance the warsaw pact it included the Soviet Union and seven sattelites in Eastern Europe. The only thing about it is unlike NATO it was often invoked by the soviets to keep its sattelites in order. -
The berlin wall
In the 1950's west berlin became a showcase for west german prosperity so a massive amount of east germans fled from communist east germany to democratic west germany so as a result they sealed off west germany with a massive wall topped with barb wire and patrolled by gaurds. Showing that people had to be forced to stay in east germany.
