By 1955 the two blocs had emerged from the post war states to a large extreme of tense polarized views on the other being fueled by the polarized views of the two controlling forces being USA and the Soviet communist. the Making of this state was Inevitable to a certain extent as due to the opposing ideological views.

To polarization of the twin states starts with the soviets increasing the eastern states sphere of control with a series of violent uprisings, coups and in most cases legitimate gaining power such as in Hungary where power was taken via democratic means however still installing a single party government. this was Stalin creating a polarized bloc that would only back Stalin's views on how to deal with the western capitalist views, this then furthers the extent to which the two polarized blocs emerged by 1955 as the views were now pro communist in the soviet spheres of influence however in countries like Hungary it wasn’t as polarized as they were still having free elections free press in 1947 parliament were allowed to debate and the borders in the west open and most medium sized business still were in private hands which is then showing that the polarized division was not Inevitable but was slow with major co operation in the border countries like Hungary.

Another cause of the polarization was the Western rearmament. this was another source of polarization as it had tensed up the already harsh relations that the two blocs had. As in April 1949 the US had formed North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) which was a coalition of western countries to work together if a member felt threatened the rest would go to war to assist the needing member causing the polarization as now there was an actual threat to Stalin and the Soviet’s future as now if Germany was to become a member of NATO then the Soviet attempts at reuniting Germany such as the Berlin