Germany Divided & The Iron Curtain

After the war Russia and the other Allies grew suspicious of each other. Each side worried that the other might invade. This time in history came to be known as the Cold War. A major symbol of the cold war was the Iron Curtain. The iron curtain divided Europe in half. One half under the control of Russia and the other half was controlled by the west. Germany was divided in two as was its capital Berlin. For years soldiers would stop people trying to escape from the east into the west everyone was worried that there would be a war. The Cold War finally came to an end in the late 1980s.

The United Nations (UN)

The United Nations was created in October 1945 after World War 2. The headquarters are in New York. At the United Nations all of the world's countries come together to talk about their problems so as to avoid any more world wars. 

The United Nations building in New York

The Chamber at the United Nations

The flag of the United Nations