NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This group included countries in both North America and Europe. The main reason for this group was defense. If one of the countries were attacked by another nation the other NATO countries could come to help. Europe still had many economic problems so the United States helped them out and gave them supplies. This could help both countries, if they cooperation with each other, to rebuild their cities faster. Many of them felt threatened by an attack from the Soviet so the importance of the NATO grew.

The Warsaw Pact included the Soviet Union and its satellite countries. It was supposed to be another defensive group but was created against the NATO. Here, they dominated the alliance. They kept their military personnel and kept on running socialist governments. They renewed in 1985 for another 20 years. In the 1980's the organization got severely weak . Troops were being removed from countries.In 1991 the Pact decided to disappear.