Monday, April 12, 2010

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO was an organization that started in the year 1950. It includes countries in Europe and North America like the U.S., Great Britain and 11 other nations. The purpose for NATO was if a country in the organization was attacked by an enemy the other from the organization would back up the country in a war. At the moment NATO was against communist which means they were against Russia (Soviet Union). it includes 12 nations including Great Britain and the United States. The Warsaw Pact was the treaty made by the communists to keep the Eastern Europe communist and for mutual support in case of an attack from NATO. It was formed by Russia, Poland, East Germany Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. They formed it because they saw NATO as a threat to communism.

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