Europe is a continent on Planet Earth, it was the centre of the cold war between USA and USSR with Western Europe, a democratic and pro-NATO zone and with Eastern Europe, a communist zone and under the control of the Warsaw Pact and of the USSR. It has been hit by the USSR and his allied but not much like the US or the USSR, many successor state has been created by various government and many wars was fight as well and much of the European states that was under the Soviet Union are become democratic. Meanwhile, the Western European countries recover themselves and started to rebuild civilization. From the 90s most of the continent is under the European Union.