The Cuban Missile Crisis
World War Two saw an unstable alliance between the East and the West in the war against Nazi Germany and later against Japan. The Atlantic Charter/Anglo-Soviet Treaty was signed on the 14th of August 1941. It was an unsteady alliance that was at times confusing and miss-interpreted on both sides, such as the Yalta meeting in February 1944, where the 'Big Three' met. Roosevelt hoped for reconciliation with the Communists, while Churchill wanted to stop the spread of Communism, even by imposing anti-Communist governments, while Stalin took more than he agreed to…
