One of the leaders of the allies, Joseph Stalin was very well known for being really careful and hard to trust others This lead to him gain most of the Eastern European powers all for himself, which ended up in Germany divided into west and east German
Distrust between former allies arose right after the end of WWII. The capitalist Allied forces were unsure on whether they could trust Stalin since he had previously allied himself with Hitler in 1939 through the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
Also, Stalin thought that the US and the British joined the war late because they expected that a fight between Germany and the USSR would weaken the mentioned nations. As a result, Stalin decided to create a geographical barrier or buffer in Eastern Europe in case of a future agression by the Western nations. This barrier included the nations that had been invaded by the Red Army on their way to Berlin and included East Germany and were included in the Warsaw Pact of 1955.
Jimmy Carter was a one-term governor for the state of Georgia. Many considered him a progressive politician, speaking out publicly against the moral and political wrongs of segregation politics and policies. On January 20, 1976, he would be making another inaugural address, this time as the President of the United States.
