Cold War Excert

On April 4th 1949 a Military Alliance between the Capitalist Nations of the West was formed known as the Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). NATO's primary purpose was to unify and strengthen the western Allies' military response to a possible attack on any nation in the Northern Atlantic. The Nations involved in NATO at the time of founding included the United States, Great Britain, and France among others and later on the inclusion of West Germany. …

…eventually coming to Aid of North Korea. After huge losses the war ended inconclusively in July 1953. This war established a trend of United States intervention when contained communist expansion as their foreign policy now dictated. 1950 also marked the change of leadership in the United States with the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the United States successfully explodes a Hydrogen bomb, a hugely more destructive weapon. Nine months later the USSR develop their own H-Bomb.