Monday, March 31, 2008

NATO and The Warsaw Pact


NATO stand for "North American Treaty Organization" . It was a alliance between The United States, Canada, and 14 other Western countries . Later in total fourteen european countries jioned the NATO alliance. This was to decrease tention within the Soviet Union.This alliance was formed by The United States of America, because the U. S. had a rivalry with the Soviet Union ( Russia).The NATO mainly to discourage the Soviet Union`s communism.

The Warsaw Pact was established by the Soviet Union. This was the Soviet Union alliance towards the United States formed NATO. This allied The Soviet Union with six euopean nation and including the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).




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communism - economic system in which all means of productionland,mines,factories,railroads are owned by the people,private property does not exist .



The United States made the NATO after the Soviet Union made the Warsaw Pact in 1945.


The NATO was made in 1949 in order to discourage The Soviet Union.

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