They're a good-looking couple: Aussie sports legends Sally Fitzgibbons, 23, and Trent Merrin, 24, have revealed they are officially dating. The Daily Telegraph reported the sporting duo's official news on Friday, writing that Sally is also a 'mad Dragons fan'.
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact).Historians have not fully agreed on the dates, but 1947â1991 is common.he Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact). Historians have not fully agreed on the dates, but 1947â1991 is common.
However, then, as now, the alliance was militarily dominated by the United States. Afghan mission was Nato's first non-European operation. In 1955 the Soviet Union created a counter-alliance called the Warsaw Pact, which dissolved after the break-up of the USSR in 1991.The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland became the first former Warsaw Pact countries to gain Nato membership in 1999.evelopment. Nato was set up in the post-World War II atmosphere of anxiety, largely to block Soviet expansion into Europe. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and subsequent demise of the Warsaw Pact, therefore, left Nato with no obvious purpose.