Wednesday, April 11, 2007

NATO and the Warsaw Pact




NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
*Is an organization that includes countries in Europe and North America. A major reason for the formations of this organization was that they wanted the countriesto be involved in a mutual defense alliance. This meant that if one of them were attacked all the other countries in NATO would come to their aide. The NATO goal was to stop the Soviet Union's production of nuclear weapons. So the Soviet Union didn't want this to happen, they decided to create its own defensive alliance called the Warsaw Pact.
The Warsaw Pact was an alliance between the Soviet Union and its Satellite countries. This help the Soviet Union to keep a military personnel in the other countries and kept running a socialist government. These alliances were both strong and were able to avoid major conflicts to other nations.

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