Thursday, April 12, 2007

NATO and The Warsaw Pact


NATO means the North Atlantic Treaty Organization which was formed between 12 countries from North America to Europe. The countries which were involved in the NATO wanted a mutual defense alliance because they knew if one country is going to involved in a war, the other countries in NATO could back up and help, so in this case they can form a stronger defensive group. After World War II many countries in Western Europe were in a great mess and most of them became weak politically and militarily because they lost hundreds of soldiers and weren’t able to go on war with other countries that quickly. So the NATO decided to help these countries who had suffered a lot after World War II to form a strong defensive group against the spread of communist which is also known as the "iron curtain" which is establish between the Soviet Union and the Western Europe from 1945-1990. Soon the relationship between the Soviet Union and the western had worsened and the NATO importance began to grew. By the year 1979 the NATO wanted to build up a defense by stopping the Soviet Union from building their nuclear weapons, but the Soviet Union didn’t stop they continue to build nuclear weapons. They also created a mutual defense alliance which was similar to the NATO but it was called the Warsaw Pact. The Warsaw pact deals mostly with satellites and it controls the alliances better by keeping the military organize in other countries of the alliance. The Soviet Union gain power quickly and became very powerful, they were also able to keep the socialist government secure.

1 comment:

Ghepardoo said...

http://ghepardoo.blogspot.com/2008/04/nato-summit-in-bucharest.html