NATO and WARSAW PACT

• 2 examples of when the Warsaw pact was seen in action?


  Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Czechoslovakia(Prague spring) in 1968
• When was the marshal plan introduced


  1947
• What causes American leaders to adopt a more militaristic stance towards the soviets?

  in February 1948 a communist coup sponsored by the Soviet Union happened in czecholslovakia
• What did the marshal plan do?

  The marshal plan provided aid to struggling European countries to stop them becoming communist
• When was nato founded?


  1949 April 4
• How many countries were in nato?


  12
• When did Greece and turkey join NATO?


  1952
• When did west Germany join NATO?


  1955
• When did Spain join NATO?


  1982
• Why was the Warsaw pact started?

  As a response to NATO

  A response to west Germany being armed after they joined nato in 1955
• When was the Warsaw pact introduced?


  May 14 1955 less than two weeks after West Germany joined NATO
• Why did formation of NATO effect tension in the Cold War?

  decreased tension as it contained the soviet threat