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large number of nuclear weapons that had been stockpiled in the republics
They were weak from the war.
they were weak from the war
West Germany, which was controlled by the three western powers, of the US, Britain and France was larger, then East Germany, which was controlled by the USSR.
The Berlin Air Lift, with which the Western Powers succeeded in supplying the city, thus going over the Soviet blockade.
The failure of the Western Powers to militarily intervene preventing the city from being conquered by the Ottomans.
Because the leaders of those two countries were more powerful than the western powers and the soviet union. They were also, by far, more aggressive and brutal when it came to fighting battles.
improved for a while, but then became more strained
four hours after Powers entered Soviet airspace, a Soviet pilot shot down his plane, and Powers was forced to parachute into Soviet-controlled territory. The Soviets sentenced Powers to ten years in prison.
Soviet foreign policy was essentially the cause of the Cold War. Their ambition to forcefully take countries and demolish the free market motivated the conflict.
You're probably thinking about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Axis power started when the opposition of the Western world and the Soviet Union united. Their goal for uniting was to break the hegemony of plutocratic-capitalist Western powers and defend civilization from communism.