The Western countries formed a coalition of its military powers called the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – NATO and the former Russian U.S.S.R and its neighbouring states formed the WARSAW Pact in 1955. As a result Russia built a wall along the border of East and West Germany, effectively cutting itself of from the rest of the world and the following decades were called the Cold War. There had been an ever-growing distrust immediately after WW2 between the Western countries (Great Britain, America, France and others) and Russia, especially over the use of the atomic bomb. But with the separation of Germany into West and East after the Second World War, East Germany formed part of the U.S.S.R. The British Centurion had been a huge success for the British Army (and would be for many other Armies later on) through out the Korean War. View Our new and expanded, The British Chieftain Tank page 0n
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