Labels:brass | bulletin board OCR: In the meantime, as the Soviet Union pup its communist neighbors build a military alliance, the United States leads the wesfern countries of Europe into an opposing coalition. The Cold War has begun. With the Soviet Union as a new enemy the U.S. gover nment continues to build its military and develop its nucl lear capability. AS the public settles into the Cold War, the government launches nationwide anti-Soviet, anticommunist witch-hunt that will become known as McCarthyism. aliiance western nuclear