The Developing Northern and Southern Alliances

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} After WWII the European nations were aligned in an east-west configuration with the Berlin wall down the middle.  West Germany, France, Britain, Canada and the United States held the power in the west with the eastern European countries and Russia obviously holding power in the East.